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KRISZTINA Kopó avenues already there, as well as creating entirely new ones.”? Our globalized world reflects our culture, and in turn culture reflects our globalized world. Therefore, “culture is a dynamic way of interpreting and interacting with the people, things and ideas surrounding a society, and [...] representing the way that society experiences them.”? Culture, however, is not an arbitrary construct, but relies on the evolution of a nation’s social makeup, which is most profoundly affected by its history and heritage. Our globalized world is characterized by international migration, which increasingly affects cross-cultural relationships and marriages. One of the focal points of the present article is an examination of how cultural groups and individuals who have been subjected to multiple cultural experiences fuse these into their personal identities. In previous decades, social psychology has mainly focused on biculturalism, which is concerned with specific understandings and competences in two cultures, for example, the ability to speak two languages fluently and accommodate the behavioral attitudes in two different cultural settings.* Transculturalism is an extension of biculturalism, which investigates individual identities with multicultural experiences.” This explores the manner in which people can acquire an understanding of a culture that “transcends,” or in other words, goes beyond cultures and blends elements of more than one culture. This intercultural exchange involves the interaction and communication of different cultural backgrounds, which is a major phenomenon of globalization. Regarding transcultural identity, we speak of “not so much a social, but a personal identity based on multiple intercultural contact experiences that can have a long-lasting effect on a person’s values and worldview.” This becomes a personal identity that transcultural individuals choose freely and consciously in relation to the cultural factors they want to incorporate into their selves. These personal identities are not fixed, but are open to new intercultural experiences, which allows for a “dynamic or so-called fluid form of identity.”’ Therefore, the dynamic nature of transcultural identity results in a self-definition that consists of personal beliefs, norms and values. Whether the physical markers of social identity, such as group identification and belonging, may be considered an integral element of an individual’s personal identity raises further questions. ? Len Kuffert, A Commentary on Some Aspects of Canadian Culture, in Kenneth G. Pryke — Walter C. Soderlund (eds.), Profiles of Canada, Toronto, Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc., 2003, 97. Kuffert, Commentary on Some Aspects, 97. 4 Melanie Vauclair — Justine Klecha - Cristina Milagre — Barbara Duque, Transcultural identity: The future self in a globalized world. Revista Transcultural. Vol. 6 (2014), 15, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274718644_Transcultural_identity_The_future_ self_in_a_globalized_world (accessed 10 March 2020). Vauclair, Transcultural identity, 15. © Tbid., 16. 7 Ibid., 16. + 290 +
