For example, we apply our own culture when we communicate with other people. Therefore, I think these two chapters were assigned together because they explain how our culture defines our identities, whether it be personality, relationships, or characteristics. Culture and identity play a major role in communication because everyone you come into contact with shares different characteristics. For a moment, every time I work with my classmate Dorcas. A few weeks ago, Dorcas and I had to do a group activity in psychology class that involved Howard Gardner's eight theories of intelligence. Once the activity was over, we had to talk about our strengths and weaknesses. I found that Dorcas had many weaknesses in many areas, due to the fact that she came from a smaller country, which was not associated in certain areas of intelligence; like music, kinesthetic and many others. But for me being American, I am exposed to different criteria of intelligence; such as music “Knowing how to play and teach music”, kinesthetics “being a cheerleader in middle school and high school”, etc. From this group activity it was highlighted our characteristic traits, our cultural differences, as well as our prompt on how we view ourselves as a