Culture introduces the combination of one's values, beliefs, language, religion, and other self-defining characteristics. Cultural identity is a person's ethnographic passport, which is used in cross-national communication. From your perspective, what is the essence of cultural identity?
dear Amalya, As a Taiwanese, my cultural identity is deeply associated with mainland China, for the roots and origin. However, as a devout Christian, my cultural identity is based on the Scripture.
Dear Paul,
Thank you for your insights. I agree: while religion is part of a person's culture, it presents a different dimension of one's identity.
Dear Amlya, yes, I can not agree with you more in that religion is part of a person's culture. In Taiwan, Daoism and Buddhism emerge as part of Taiwanese identity. We need more missionaries to preach Christianity here.
Dear Paul,
Religious beliefs present one's spiritual values, which develop cultural awareness, moral identity, and perception of the world.
Dear Amalya, yes, religious belief to some extent shapes the culture of a race, a nation.
Hello. There is a difference between culture and tradition. Tradition informs culture. Culture is a lot more evolutionary than tradition is and for that reason, it is tradition that gives one an identity; language, belief system, nomenclature, moral/behavioral code among others. Culture implements the policy (tradition).
As Christian, we are called upon to embrace the policy/law (tradition of God,being the sons of God. From there, we then embrace the Christ like culture hence being called Christians.
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