My Experience (Identity)

I am an oversea student from China. I came to Australia when I was 17. Now I’m currently a first year student in university and graduated from high school last year. I can still remember the feelings when I just arrived in Australia.

At that time, I basically know nothing about Australia. To me most people looks so different – different color skin, different color hair and different languages.  I felt really scared. I felt I didn’t belong. After a while I went language school, in there I learnt English and made many friends form different countries. At the same time, I was working as part time in hungry Jack’s. By doing all these, I started to accept Australia’s multicultural society. Now I feel really comfortable to live in Australia.  

I remembered in the first tutorial, we watched a video that a white man asking a girl who looks Asian “where are you from? I mean, where are you really from?” . This video was funny. And now I think people shouldn’t just judge people only by their appearance, because with different atmosphere people have different experience. With different experience people can always accept new things and not only be what they “look” like.

In my opinion, culture and identity can influence people and also change people in many different ways.

reference

Phillips, A. (2006). What is culture? In Arneil, Barbara and Deveaux, Monique and

Dhamoon, Rita and Eisenberg, Avigail, (eds.) Sexual justice / cultural

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Wadham, B. Pudsey, J. & Boyd, R. (2007). Culture and education . Sydney:

Pearson Education. Chapter 1: What is culture?