How do you think immigration affects a person's identity? How big of a role does ethnicity play in one's culture? Biologically speaking, your skin color, your blood, your ancestors, they do not have anything to do with your identity, except physically and genetically. So why does ethnicity affect a person's identity, espescially for immigrants? Or even children to immigrants. People born in Canada or America. I'm specifically asking about people born in western countries who are ethnically of different countries. How does all this affect the country as a whole?
I'm writing a research paper on this subject and would really like some outside views on this topic. My essay topic is basically: The connections between identity to culture and ethnicity for an immigrant are hard to explain and also constantly changing, and how this affects a country's cultural identity is reflected in the way people try to find a balance between new and old identities and compromise with the changing times. It's a work in progress, but it's something along the lines of personal identity as an immigrant and how that reflects in what a country or the whole world goes through with the effects of immigration.
So any help would be lovely :)
Immigration and Identity?
I would basically agree that certain countries prefer a majority of people with certain blood.
For example, European countries prefer mostly people with full European blood.
Canada prefers Europeans and aboriginal Canadians.
The USA prefers Europeans, Africans, and aboriginal Americans.
People of a certain blood tend to think the same way, and possess the same talents and interests, and thus they are better capable of forming a strong society.
