Relationship between cultural appropriation practices and the construction of youth identity. Experiences of Costa Rica and Colombia

Abstract

This article shows the results of the research “Youth cultural appropriation practices and their link with the construction of identity in the university population of the University of Costa Rica and the Simón Bolívar University of Barranquilla” including the period of 2018-2020. This study accounts for objective number four, concerning “establishing the relationships between youth cultural appropriation practices and the construction of identity, which are possessed by young university students in the second year of the career of Counseling at the University of Costa Rica and from the career of Psychology at the Simón Bolívar University of Barranquilla”. Consequently, a qualitative hermeneutic-interpretive research was carried out, in which 4 groups of second-year of the career of counseling of the University of Costa Rica and of the Psychology career of the University of Simón Bolivar were voluntarily formed. University Simón Bolívar of Barranquilla, held 2 meetings with each group, for a total of 8 focus groups, developing two groups of young people and four meetings per country. Among the results, it has been identified how new consumer trends associate mainly with uses, reconfigure being young, while the processes of cultural significance are constant, regionalization advances and burst into spaces varying the order, creating more diffuse border lines, endowing their own worlds and their being with new meanings. It is evident in both countries how the different and varied consumption practices and
their uses, being appropriate by the youngs, taken to their daily lives, are endowed with meaning and significantly shape their identity.