Create a cultural profile describing as many of your primary (unchangeable/present at birth) and secondary (changeable) characteristics as you can. This can be a list. Primary characteristics include: sex, age (birth year), height (at full adulthood), certain physical characteristics you were born with – color, appearance, etc., native language, sexual orientation, geographic region you come from, genetic intellectual abilities, genetic physical abilities, health, birth order, religion born into, ethnicity. Secondary characteristics include: occupation, educational attainment, geographic region you live, family composition – marital status, parent status, religion, appearance –weight, physical features, learned languages, military status, etc.
Discuss the different ways you appear to others.
A- How do you think you appear to others– colleagues in your workplace, people “on the street,” close friends and family?
B- What do these different groups know or think they know about your values, your fears and needs? [1-2 pages]