@fernandag
Cultural identity can be partially chosen, but not entirely free.You can freely adopt languages, values, lifestyles, foods, music, clothing, and cultural practices that resonate with you. Many people successfully build hybrid or cosmopolitan identities through choice and personal affinity.However, elements like ethnicity, family heritage, childhood socialization, racialized experiences, and how society categorizes/perceives you are largely involuntary and continue to shape your lived identity regardless of personal preference.In short: cultural identity is a spectrum — partly chosen, partly assigned.https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt1n7zkgj
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/12/cultural-appropriation-identity-choice
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