How Does Cultural Identity | Inseong Kim | TEDxGrandCanyonUniversity Work?

Cultural identity is like your favorite outfit, it tells people who you are and where you come from.

Imagine you have a backpack that holds all the things you love: your favorite toy, your mom’s cooking, the songs you dance to. That backpack is cultural identity. Inseong Kim talks about how this backpack changes when we go on adventures, like moving to a new city or making friends with people who wear different outfits.

When you move to a new place, your backpack gets heavier. You add new stories and memories, but the old ones stay too. It’s like learning a new language at school, you still speak your home language at home, but now you can say "hello" in two ways!

Sometimes people feel confused because their backpack has so many things in it. But that’s okay, having different parts of your identity is what makes life interesting.

When we share our backpacks with others, we make new friends and learn more about the world. It's like when you bring a snack to share at lunch, everyone gets a little taste of something special. That’s how cultural identity works: it helps us feel connected, even when we’re different. Cultural identity is like your favorite outfit, it tells people who you are and where you come from.

Imagine you have a backpack that holds all the things you love: your favorite toy, your mom’s cooking, the songs you dance to. That backpack is cultural identity. Inseong Kim talks about how this backpack changes when we go on adventures, like moving to a new city or making friends with people who wear different outfits.