Question

Explain how political, religious, and ethnic cultures shape the development of identity.

Answer 1

Identity is a thought (judgment/belief) in which a particular individual or groups interest and belief is expressed.

The political, religious and the cultural belief had finely shaped a person's identity.

Political identity often refers to thoughts and beliefs that one person has or grows after being in a political party. The political ideas and thoughts could be pre or post joining a political party. A pre-political thoughts/ideas lead to the person joining a specific political association whose thoughts/ideas are similar to his.
A post political thoughts/ideas are after one person joins the political party and identifies that the thoughts/ideas of the political group is accurate and can lead to the well being of the person or society as a whole.

Once a person is affiliated to a political party, his thoughts are given wider attitudes and opinions through a person/group having the same political ideologies. So the person/group starts to get categorized/identified by their political opinions.

The religious beliefs are one of the most common ideologies in which a particular person or group is identified. The religious beliefs are either tagged by birth of the person or by the religious ideas of a particular religion that the person finds ideal. Every religion has their own specific ideologies which they follow and the preach their followers to follow. Though most of the religion preaches the same which is the well being of a society/human, Not all religions have the same concept of the way they follow this preaching. For example, Certain religion is allowed the alcohol during their religious celebration whereas in some religion the same is avoided. This way of following the preachings ultimately creates a diversified identity and shaping of a particular person's identity.

The cultural identity is normally tagged by the birth of the person. This may be associated with the nationality of the person, religion a person follows or the locality which has a distinct culture. The cultural identity gives a sense of belongingness (nationality or religious), which is the reason the person deeply follows and supports the culture associated with the group and is identified by the culture he is following in the society.