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About my own cultural identity.

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Hayley Yeates: It's (past) time to appreciate cultural diversity

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With tart humor, Hayley Yeates makes the case that investing in cultural diversity is just as important as fostering gender diversity.

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Hayley Yeates was born in South Korea, when she was 5 months old, she adopted by a white Australian couple and she grow up in Australia, English is her mother tongue. So she thinks she's a fake Asian because of the culture she grew up in. However other people always consider she with her out look even through she think she is not different. When she was in university, no one wanted to form a team with her, she thought it was because she was too serious. But it was actually because other people thought she was Asian and didn't communicate well. Then she forced herself to do a lot of group work in order to make others think she was valuable. After that she realizes that there are so many obstacles for ‘fake Asian’ and what about the real Asian people? An ironic fact is that culturally diverse team can do more accurate work because they have more diverse skills and experiences. At the same time, companies with minority groups can be more impartial and neutral. As a result, the situation for minority women is even more difficult. Just like “Bamboo Ceiling”. But she believes that although our generation cannot solve these problems, we have to do something for the people of the next generation.

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Ren Hang’s Provocative Photographs Show a China We Rarely See (Published 2019)

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An exhibition in Paris showcases the work of a Chinese photographer whose career was meteoric, and tragically brief.

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https://www.frieze.com/article/legacy-ren-hang

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Society have given them multiple identities, so artists use artistic creation to express their identities. Even with different identities, cultures, and nationalities, people can still perceive the meaning of art works. And different people will have different feelings about the same work of art, because identity determines the way people see the world.

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I was born and raised in China and I proud of my country's five thousand years history and culture.Currently I am a student of fashion design and will be an illustrator in my spare time.Therefore I'm an big fan of anime and 3D-games.Virtual games make me feel a real world that doesn't exist in reality, especially now that I can't go out and travel freely. The goal of life in the future is to be a women's clothing designer, and to show the 56 national cultures of our country in the form of fashion design.

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Artists use artwork to explore personal and social identities.The artwork expresses their reflections on their own identity, including family, friends, birthplace, sexual orientation, upbringing, nationality, etc. And we can feel the meaning of the artwork and understand the positive and negative aspects of the artist by analyzing the identity.

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In the contemporary society, there are many well-known photographers who use photos to express their emotions, and their works have also attracted widespread attention in society. Ren Hang is one of the most influential contemporary Chinese photographers. His works often feature birds, reptiles, plants, and overlapping naked human limbs and organs. Furthermore, highly saturated color schemes and peculiar composition form his unique photography style.  Hang's bright and candid personality is completely reflected in the photographic works through the lens of the camera.

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"I don't want people to think that the Chinese are like robots without sex organs," he said.

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He expresses his yearning for love with his works, and hopes to relieve the public's anxiety about nudity through nude photography. People are born naked baby, why should they be ashamed of being naked as adults? His work is actually an exploration of intimacy and self-exploration.

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Hang is a gay , but the gay community is struggling in China, and he suffered from depression in college. In such a serious country, his creative environment is very limited. And his photography exhibitions are often closed because of what he shoots and his gay identity.Even though his mother gave him enough love and tolerance, it still could not alleviate his condition.

Hang is also a poet, he is a person who yearns for love, and his photography and poetry collections express his yearning for love. He struggled with conflict, and perhaps his choice to commit suicide was a relief.