Cultural Self Esteem

Despite the culture, every society holds prevalent cultural predictors of self development and self esteem. In a study of one hundred and seventy four Chinese American male and one hundred and seventy nine Chinese American female college students in the San Francisco Bay Area, specific domains of cultural orientation such as language, social affiliation, and cultural pride was explored and its findings conclude how all domains are related to self esteem. A General Ethnicity Questionnaire was completed by the students resulting in findings that included that those students who were proficient in English as well as their native language, Chinese, and held high pride in their Chinese culture were positively correlated with self esteem. However,

Despite the studies comparing the Eastern world with the Western, another significant cultural factor that affects self esteem is the media. In today's technological day in age, social media has become a huge part of our daily lives as a way of communication and connecting with the world. However, unintentionally, this can damage our self worth and lead to our individual perception of others. Social media tends to compare ourselves to what we see which can alter or result in lowering our individual self esteem. However, the truth is that social media only portrays a snapshot of what the reality is making everything look perfect. In addition, not only social media, but the media itself can have a damaging effect of one's self esteem. In fact, in countries such as the United States, underweight models are often if not always on the covers of magazines, on television, on billboards, commercials, etc.. Unfortunately, young adolescent females are most affected and tend to look up to these figures detrimenting themselves in a harmful, unhealthy perspective. These unrealistic standards affect young girls struggling on how to be accepted within their culture since they believe that this image is what they should be and look like. In fact, so many young girls aspire to be like these models

As we develop, we gain or lose self esteem depending on certain factors that affect us. In fact self esteem is an essential part of our lives that help build a solid foundation with coping in life. Unfortunately, our culture tends to shape our self from a very early age, whether are aware of it or not. During the time children start school, children are exposed to a whole new environment during this time in their development. In fact, school and education can affect a child's self esteem. During this period, self esteem consists of how well children learn new tasks, how they look or appear to their peers, how they can make friends with the other children as well as how well they are at sports. This is the primary time in which children start to feel about themselves that exceeds that their bodies and minds are their own and for the first time, they are away from their home and their parents. Such factors alone can affect a young child's self esteem when first having to be away from their home and their parents. Other related stressors include having problems at school such as not being able to do their homework, having a learning disability, or any type of academic failure can certainly affect their self esteem. Hence, lead to other complications such as affecting their social life. Although losing a sport or failing a mathematics test