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Coming to Middlebury College as a small-town island girl from Oahu, Hawaii, I have been struck by a wide range of geographic diversity on campus. Little things catch me off-guard: a boy speaking Arabic on the phone to his mom, or my Burmese friend mixing all-American food together like he did with his food back home (soup with Oreos, anyone?). My life was a colorful fusion of Polynesian, Asian and American traditions, but here, many cultures stand out more distinctly. Each fleeting image of identity that trails behind will vanish again in four years' time.
What defines our identity - is it the taste of the food we eat, the language we speak, or does it change with what we think? The International Students Organization's spring lecture series,"Cross Cultural Identity," is holding a discussion today in Ross Commons B11 at 5 p.m., to explore this touching and complex subject. As a prelude, we showcase responses from international students, American students who've studied abroad, and expatriate/global citizens on their view of personal identity.
- Kaylen Baker, Staff Writer
ISO examines interplay between cultural identities
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