User:Cales23

Hello all. I am currently a Student at Drake University and working on creating the Global youth studies page for a credited course. Within this topic, my main interests involve focusing on the Cultural identity page. Since this page is fairly limited in extensity and research, I plan to revise and add to it in regards to quite a few topics.

The plan
Identity is something that every individual strives to find in this world. The construction of identity can be a long and detailed path, and differentiating between all. There are also many factors and concepts that go into creating one’s identity, and culture is one of them. Cultural identity is the structural factors and concepts of one’s culture that plays a modifying and formulating role in creating a concept of self and identification.

I would like to start off by revising the opening paragraph of this article to help make the description more clear and concise. Research regarding how cultural identity is seen and constructed on a global scale will potentially bring about this change. I would also like to add a youth and Adoption subtopics section to this page. This will help to deepen the understanding of cultural identity while pertaining to the material learned in my course. Lastly, I plan to revise any and all areas of this article that represent a limited global perspective of this topic. Since this article is rather brief in information, I will mainly focus on the education and school transitioning subtopics.

The goal is to find and analyze scientific research and journal articles as well as meta-analyses through available data-bases associated with these particular topics, in hopes of building a more wholesome article. Cultural identity, and identity construction in general, is a crucial topic from a youth perspective. Therefore, building a more global outlook on this topic will be beneficial to the wiki world.

Feedback
The feedback I received was very helpful in the sense that I received more guidance on what to fix and adjust in order to contribute more qualified information towards the adoption page. I realized that some of my wording is not appropriate for the wiki world and well as adding/adjusting more of my information. Also, I am working on organizing the information in a manner that makes more sense. I plan to keep making more edits with wording and organization in order to finalize my results.

Potential articles
Cultural identity

International adoption

Adoption

Potential citations

 * 1) - Dorow, S. K. (2006). Transnational adoption : a cultural economy of race, gender, and kinship. New York : New York University Press,.
 * 2) - Manzi, C., Ferrari, L., Rosnati, R., & Benet-Martinez, V. (2014). Bicultural Identity Integration of Transracial Adolescent Adoptees: Antecedents and Outcomes. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 45(6), 888-904. doi:10.1177/0022022114530495
 * 3) - Palmer, J. D., & University of California, L. (2011). The Dance of Identities : Korean Adoptees and Their Journey Toward Empowerment. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press in association with UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Los Angeles
 * 4) - Seligmann, L. (2013). Broken Links, Enduring Ties [electronic resource] : American Adoption across Race, Class, and Nation. Palo Alto : Stanford University