Hi, I need help with essay on Discovering the Self. Paper must be at least 1250 words. Please, no plagiarized work!Download file to see previous pages... What helped me much here was the realization t

Hi, I need help with essay on Discovering the Self. Paper must be at least 1250 words. Please, no plagiarized work!

What helped me much here was the realization that money was such a powerful tool and the fact that the United States is dominated by an independent culture. Aside from these, I sought help from three dimensions of culture – power distance, desire for material and financial success, and long-term orientation. Now, I have become a person who has already learned survival, strength and responsibility and someone who does not leave things to fate. Nevertheless, this construct is not fixed because given different circumstances, I would most likely change into someone else. This is the real me when I am alone and when I am in the company of others. Discovering the Self How is it that I know that I exist and who tells me this and why am I certain that I believe them? Through experience and insight, I have defined my existence, but mainly through experience with the culture I have come to adopt. Through my struggles with poverty and through the pain I have experienced because of it, I have come to realize who I am – an individual with strong personal convictions because of my insights and experience, and at the same time one who is constantly changing as I imbibe more insight and gain more experience. In short, it is my strong personal convictions from my insights and experience that make me believe that I exist. Moreover, the contrast that my life of poverty made with the relatively more affluent people around us somehow created and developed in me a sense of uniqueness and therefore a sense of self. Nevertheless, I believe that any future insight and experience will change me further and may even change everything that I am because I believe that more than anything else, culture is a “creator” (Matsumoto &amp. Juang, 2008). In my case, my experience with and exposure to culture did not do much to enhance my existing behavior, enable me to do certain things, or suppress many of my ways. Rather, it created in me a strong will power that directed my life in the way I believe I should live it. The question now is: How have I come to become who I am now? For the most part, money dictated who I should be and it governed how I should think and how I should act the way I do. Money is one of the factors that influence the creation of culture and through my experiences in life, I have proven that indeed “abundant money can help to buffer the consequences of a lack of resources…which in turn have interesting psychological consequences” (Matsumoto &amp. Juang, 2008). However, I have proven this by living the opposite. I lived a very poor childhood with a step dad who just drank and abused my mother. I even remember eating ketchup on a cracker for dinner and having to move all the time for we could not afford living anywhere for too long. I never even got involved in school activities because I needed money to join any club or sport activity. All the while I was thinking to myself that in all these times I could have done something or changed my life had I only had an abundance of money. With enough money, my mother and we, kids, could have run away from our step dad and we could have lived a better and more comfortable life and perhaps studied in good schools and joined all the activities I wish I had been a part of. However, in my case, culture – particularly the aspect of the lack of money – did not only try to suppress some of my needs and wants in life but also created in me a strong spirit of a typical survivor.