In the beginning of this challenge we had to make 'a pie' about her own life and identitty to get a better view over our cultural identity and cultural hybridity. This was my result:
Friends are very important because a big part of your life you will spend with these persons. Human beings are simply not made to live alone. We need company.
My family:
Just as friends is family also one of the important things in my life, because these are the persons who brought me up. They give me love, values, respect, reason to live, ... Just as my friends they make me to the person I am now.
Music:
Music is the third most important thing in my life. I play and listen to traditional and folk music.
This music means a lot to me and I can not imagine living without.
Religion:
I am Roman Catholic and this is also a big piece of my identity/life/pie because my belief in certain things changes my way of living in a lot of aspects.
Ethnic group:
This is not a very big piece in my life. It's important to me but not in a way that it is necessary to live.
Work and study:
The thing I am studying now is the thing I want to do later as work. So I think that this will be later a bigger piece in my life.
Cosmopolitan:
I feel easily home in an other country. I am not that kind of person that only likes his own country. I like to experience new countries, cultures, languages, religions, ... That's also one of the reasons why I am here in Denmark on Erasmus.
Local, national or transnational:
Then we had to see if our identity was more local, national or transnational:
My results:
- 25 % transnational
- 5 % national
- 70 % local
The results of our class:
=> As you can see all the groups had a more local identity then a national or transnational identity.
This was unexpected to me because we are in a world that becomes more and more globalised.
Next we got some more information about hybridity, globalisation, identity, national, transnational and local.
Our group made a mind-map with the most important information on it:
Reflection:
This challenge made me think about my own identity. It was interesting to do this because of course you know the most things which are very important in your life, but it was new for me to say HOW important they are.
It was also surprising to see that so much people have particulary an local identity in stead of a national or even transnational identity. On the other hand we saw how important globalization and hybridity actually is.
It's our future!!
My CV:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G0jYAFBqH6trU3QG7dw4vtElrHy94mGLVc7jp34_Rbs/edit?hl=en&pli=1#
