The features of cultural identity in latency-age children along with the influences of cultural values, transmitted via the family, are the central focus of this essay. In this context, the understanding of how development can appear to bifurcate along a continuum of "individualist" versus "collectivist" cultures can be perceived in what Andreas-Salome referred to as the "dual orientation of narcissism". This essay also discusses the impact of immigration and the adaptation of the individual in a foreign country.