Cultural Identity Wrap-up

        The theme of cultural identity has many interesting events and activities that were held in class, such as discussions on different readings, making a poster, and blog, which really helps me to improve my awareness, self-realization and the respect for cultural identity. It is a great opportunity to explore more various cultures and their conflicts, such as racial discrimination, globalization and Americanization, and classmates’ cultural backgrounds. For example, the author, Lorraine Ali, has been treated badly with discrimination because of her half European ancestry and half Arab. Although, she still has enough courage to fight with the awful issue. Besides, what attracts me is participating in the blog, although I had never used it before this semester. I think using the blog can not only show and display our work online, but also provide a platform for us to communicate and compete with each other and set up the variety of self-learning goals in order to improve one’s self-learning standards. Thus, I think the class is attractive and meaningful.