I had a short conversation with my friend about her background. I was glad for taking the time to talk to her. At the first onset, she is my high school friend. She is Asian, who comes from Korea, and thus her first language is Korean. As a student in the US, her second language is English. She answered easily about herself when I was asking about her background. I also asked her to describe her identity with three words. She told her story. She described her identity of these three words – Christian, international student, and someone’s partner. She was born in Seoul, Korea in 1994 and she was born in an ordinary family. Both of her parents were always busy so she was left in kindergarten from a newborn baby. She …show more content…
Her religion aided her spiritually. In readings, Ruby K. Payne said that spiritual resources are the principle that help can be obtained from a supernatural force capable of affecting outcomes in the material world, that there is a reason for living, and that value and love are gifts from God. This is a strong and mighty resource because the individual cannot see him/herself as hopeless and useless, but rather as capable and valuable and having worth and value. As Payne’s opinion, religion can be the forceful resource to establish identity. People can rely on their religion spiritually. Besides, she had been taught culture, customs, values, and moral in family, especially, she learned from his parents. Huge Mehan said that culture has been productively thought about as the knowledge or skills that are necessary for membership in a society or community and culture or civilization, taken in its widest ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes intelligence, principle, are moral, laws, customs, and other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society or community. Specifically, our identities are influenced by a specific member of society or community. As above author’s mentioned, the interview was confirmed and seemed similar to issues discussed in the readings, on the other hand, I feel that the questions such as more factors as well as spiritual perspective should have interviewed and