How Affects Self Esteem And Culture Identification

There seems to be little media attention to one of the most growing mental health problems which is self esteem. There are many factors that contribute to the causes of low self esteem, we need to identify some of those causes and see how our culture affect us.

First lets take a look at the most basic causes of low self esteem, those are education, heredity and our environment. Those factors have a huge impact in our life especially when we are child and we are starting to develop our personality, values and beliefs.

The education we get, give us our values and beliefs that we acquire to make our own decisions in life. Education also give us our cultural beliefs and shape our personality.

Heredity is also a cause of low self esteem, if the parents of a child were shy or had self confidence problems the kid might have it too. However, how parents treat their child has an important effect in them.

Environment is probably the most important factor that shape our personality and beliefs, the people we have around us, our friends, our teachers, our family and anyone else affect how we shape our values and personality. If the environment of a child is negative full of fights and insults, the child will acquire low self esteem.

As we grow up we acquire our cultural values from our parents and school, some of those values are good but some are negative and can affect our beliefs. Another thing that parents need to be aware of and affect our values and beliefs, is the media.

The media is more than ever playing an important role in shaping our kids cultural identification, how they look, how they dress, what they eat, what is good, what is bad, who is cool, who is not, etc. Parents need to teach their children the real values, dont let your children see tv in excess they should be doing outside activities that require creativity.

However, is not just children, but teenagers and adults are changing their cultural beliefs due to media messages and shows. For example the media shows you their perfect woman model as a thin person, this is the reason many teenagers feel insecure about their self body image.