I’ll try my best to reflect on my cultural identities, found on the social identity wheel, and explain how these characteristics affect my role as a technical communicator. I may not know exactly what I need to say for this, so I’ll just tell you about my social identities and why/how they would affect my role as a technical communicator.

First is my ethnicity/race. I am white. I have grown up in a community that is almost entirely white people, so this could affect my role as a technical communicator because I may not be able to understand the culture of other ethnicities and or races. Me being white while growing up like this does not help much either.

Second on the list was my socio-economic status. I am not too sure on how to answer this, so I’ll say middleclass. I do not think I am poor or uneducated, and I do not think I am very rich, so I will say that I am somewhere in the middle, like I think most people are. This could affect my role as a technical communicator because I may not be able to understand how and or what poor or rich people think and if they have a different culture.

Third was for sex/gender. I am male. My role as a technical communicator may be affected by this because I understand my culture through the view of a male and this view on the culture may be different for a female.

Fourth is sexual orientation. I am straight. This may affect my role as a technical communicator since I potentially do not know the culture of someone of a different sexual orientation from mine own.

Fifth was on national origin. I am a proud American citizen of the United States of America who enjoys hotdogs, baseball, and freedom. Maybe not those first two but growing up in America I grew up with American culture. My role as a technical communicator could be affected by this because I have not really experienced any cultures other than my own.

Sixth is first language. My first, and only language, is English, so I may not be able to be able to understand the culture of others who have a different first language and this could affect my role as a technical communicator because I may have to write for people who’s second language is English at some point.

Seventh was for Physical, emotional, and or developmental (dis)abilities. I may not have anything relating to this and or anything I do have that I do not know of can not be compared to how many disabilities are out there. This could affect my role as a technical communicator because I may not know how specific groups of people who have any sort of disability would understand a particular set of text.

Eighth is age. I am twenty years old, so I would say I am in the general eighteen to twenty-four range. Because of this I do not have as much experience in certain fields as others and this could affect my role as a technical communicator because I may not know the culture of people from older or younger generations.

Lastly, we have religious or spiritual affiliation. I would say I am not affiliated with any religion or have any spiritual beliefs, but I was raised as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints and lived in a community with a large population of Mormons. Since I was brought up in this culture, I may not be able to understand the cultures of others who have different spiritual affiliations which could affect my role as a technical communicator.

It is very important to understand our own cultural identities so that we can know and or understand what can impact our ways of thinking. It can help to Know that we think certain ways because of our culture and understanding that some of these ways of thinking may need to be discarded in order to become a better technical communicator.

If I am understanding this correctly, the Uno card game rules manual uses global context because it not only explains the game in a way anyone could understand the instructions, but it also contains many examples and pictures to further explain how to play the game. The manual also comes in many different languages so almost anyone could understand how to play.