The issue of two interwoven entities - personal identity and ethnicity
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Word count: 3,994 INTRODUCTION This essay is devoted to the specific problem presently current in the multicultural societies - the issue of two interwoven entities - personal identity and ethnicity. In the following essay, I am going to locate the focal point of this problem in the one particular community - Highland Park High School. Highland Park is a small town in New Jersey, Middlesex County, where many emigrants from Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America are there. At the Highland Park High School, although not apparently seen, the question of identity and ethnic belonging is still a problem among the American youths. While staying a year at Highland Park, I have been thinking a lot about the problems characteristic for the multicultural societies. All the questions I have asked myself may be boiled down to one single question - namely, whether ethnicity and identity should be treated as interdependent variables, or...


