Name:Mina Ibraheem Instructor: K.Allen Course: 120/020 Date: 10/23/2020 Cultural Borders and Identity Cultural boundaries refer to the existence of a kind of cultural differences. Cultural borders are a feature of all human societies, both traditional and modern. Borders are a social construct with political origin. Power is exercised across borders, as in the case of political borders between two states.Define a cultural boundary, or cultural area, a geographical area in which a group of people share the same cultural practices and traditions. These aspects may include language, ethnicity, and religion. Sometimes the cultures may be different, and these cultures may differ from another person in terms of language and in terms of food, and also dressed in dance, religion and ethnicity, and there is a big difference between the two cultures and this may have a great impact between every two people from different cultures, for example, many immigrants came Recently to various countries, including the United States. In Beginning Today I will talk about myself and a story that I have passed through in terms of differences, cultures. What is this thing wrong? I am a refugee from Iraq. I came to the United States in 2009 before I was in Jordan, and after a long wait I came here, and the reason for coming with my family is what happened in my country, Iraq, because of the wars and persecution that happened.When I came here and went to the high school, I faced many difficulties because I cannot speak my language in front of other students. I cannot tell them about my original culture, and this is difficult for me because they see us from their different cultures and they do not like that they do not like to participate or interact With people with them of different culture or ethnicity, and all of the attendants spoke the English language, which is completely different from my mother tongue, and this is what I encountered in the difficulty of adapting to their culture, and they are the same thing, but I had a great passion to learn the language and speak with them and become their friend. But the next day we went to a lesson and put our art teacher into groups where we participated in many activities. She emphasized that each group includes members from different backgrounds. We all understand that people from different backgrounds have different cultures, and everyone has their view of another person's culture. Hence, students learn about different cultures and in turn speak different languages. So it was a rule for every student to communicate in English. So there is this very day when our art teacher assigned us the task of identifying the colors of the different elements in the photographs he provided. We had the opportunity to interact in groups to determine the name that gave students from other cultures certain colors. In my group, we had students from Russia and others from America. Hey, please listen to this very well. For students from Russia, items with different shades of blue were classified into two, either light blue or dark blue, with one name for each category. For American students, color had one word, and that was color blue. The exercise was fun, but I learned something more than just an art by the end of the lesson. If different people speaking different languages ​could perceive an aspect like color differently, then what could their minds perceive differently as well? Does the language a person speaks shape this person's way of thinking, and thus their identity? There have been arguments back and forth about whether language influences a person's way of thinking. Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and linguists have strong opinions about whether a person's language influences their way of thinking. Analyzes of stereotypical languages ​have gathered evidence that supports the diversity of people's thinking. They perceive and act in relation to the language they are speaking. Perhaps because language is used to convey laws, cultural norms, taboos and values. Shared behavior patterns, knowledge and beliefs result from cultural boundaries between different cultures. Therefore, culture may be ingrained in language because language connects similar experiences, backgrounds, and histories to form words that match a particular culture. For example, Americans often use left and right to indicate direction. On the other hand, Indigenous Australians use cardinal points to indicate directions, as Lira Boroditsky (​TED) explains in her video how language affects the way people think. Aboriginal people from the Australian Aboriginal communities are more likely to be more oriented than Americans or someone from any other community. The language practiced by indigenous Australians as part of their culture provides the opportunity for an individual to be aware of the trend regardless of the situation. If the person belongs to a different community, then orientation may be sideways that he may need to study and adapt to, perhaps because he is Different linguistic speakers focus on different points in the action. For example, English speakers describe an action quoting an action, even an accident. Spanish speakers tend to focus more on an event, rather than the person who did it. The event itself can have different descriptions, depending on the cultural background of the speaker. Likewise, two people can witness a similar ordeal but use a different language to describe that event. The focus point is determined by the language the person uses. The language used can, in turn, lead to different perceptions, for example, blaming or punishing someone for an act if the language used focuses on the performer of the action. The picture paints in different languages ​may create different scenarios for a person who was not at the location of the event in question. Lera Boroditsky | "How Language Shapes the Way We Think" ​(TED) Omar Sakr | "My First & Second Language" ​(Meanjin)
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