Determining Individual Identity

As I explored the aspects of identity through filling out the social identity wheel, I was able to distinguish the elements which make up my social identity and make note of the ones which I was most aware of. Through this exercise I began to realize that my age, gender, and religion were all aspects which heavily influence my everyday life. I may not be intentionally thinking of these things during an ordinary day, but I deem them as primary aspects due to the fact that they shape many of my routine happenings. For example, here on campus I try to attend the church service at St. Paul’s on as many Sundays as time allots. Luckily enough, a few girls on my floor are also interested in this so we often attend as a group. This heavily correlates

Outside influences have a strong capability to influence and alter our personal identity. Both directly and indirectly, the social contexts in which we live can change the way we think and feel, and by extension how we interact with other people and places. Immediate family, friendship groups and the physical environment are all factors which contribute to our ever changing perceptions of ourselves. Sometimes personal identity can be subtly reshaped over a gradual time frame, as our sense of who we are is modified without personal recognition that we are changing. At other times we may be able to notice our personal identity changing, through important life decisions.

There are many factors that shape us into who we are, and who we will become. Some of these factors we can control, while others we cannot. While we are born into many traits of our identities, much of our other behavior is learned. My identity, for example, is “based not only on responses to the question ‘Who am I?’ but also on responses to the question ‘Who am I in relation to others?’” (Allen, 2011, p. 11). My identity and the question of who I am, are both influenced by many aspects of my life, including my hometown, my family, my friends, and my beliefs and moral values.

Who I am? Personally, I believe that a person’s identity can take only one of two routes. One, a person’s identity can change within that person’s life. Who I am now, is not necessarily who I was when I was younger. Experience can and will likely modify our identities. Therefore, experience can solidify our personal identification or it can weaken our personal identification. And as such, individuals and their perspectives are always evolving, or at the very least, they should evolve over time. Although there are some identities that evolve throughout one’s lifetime; there are some identities that remain consistent. Two, some identities cannot and will not change. So identities are socially and/or politically forces upon you, some identities are genetically assigned to you, and some you choose to keep. No matter the reason or reasons, these identities have been and will be consist within your lifespan. But, how you deal with them is up to you as an individual.

To what extent is it possible to define ourselves? We don’t have control over our identity but we have control on our lives and how we want to live it. The benefits of our hard work, are the benefits of our lives. Self-fulling prophecy. This relates to the Novel, in a way where the characters are all trying to achieve something that benefits themselves. For example when Junior wanted to change schools, he knew the consequences but he went anyways because he wanted to find hope, to find something. From personal experiences, this relates to the term because People judge me for my nationality and that I’ll probably end like the rest of my ‘cousins’ or ‘aunties’. After that I’ve been trying to become something. Something that will benefit my future and my life. Real world. People became themselves by judgement and pain. People prove to others that they are right or wrong because they either work or give up.

However, identify is argued to no longer be about distinguishing who you are as a person because of how people are struggling to find their true selves. People are left to wander around in the world so that they can go through times that can help them shape who they are, who they want to be, or who should be in the future. We want to be able to have some sense of belonging in the world and we do so by interacting with friends that share the same common interests or self-presentations. This way, we are able to self-realize and reflect on the person we are becoming over time in relation to the roles we previously held in society so we can adjust accordingly. Such individuals are illustrated to be “self-reflective” because this gives them the prerogative to make their own life choices without the influences of others impacting them. On the other hand, we find ourselves letting other people make such decisions for us. We try to deflect these attempts, yet we let it happen anyway as a result of those negative influences because of a sense of not belonging, being accepted, or impressing friends so that they believe you are this type of person. This innately allows us to seek our social identity and what role we want to bring to the group. Indeed, we can state that we can learn and be

The identity certification procedure is intended to give all participants in the NECS confidence that the practitioner has followed the prescribed procedures to verify the identity of the client and “may protect the practitioner from a negligence claim if the identity is subsequently proven to be false”. Conveyancers should therefore be mindful that failing to follow the prescribed procedures will almost definitely result in a finding of negligence.

Our identity can sometimes be shaped by the way others see us. As we have seen, the way in which others view us can have some sort of impact on how we see ourselves. There are also other contributing factors such as our years of adolescence, the basic human need of wanting to belong and maturing; all play an equally important part in the forming of our character and who we are. On balance it appears that there is not only one influence in the shaping of our identity, but there are many.

Our beliefs and values are part of our own culture, and they are important for determining a person's identity. Everyone is brought up in a different way according to their traditions, and an identity forms throughout communications with others in your own ethnicity. Many people across the world have been discriminated because of their own cultural beliefs and identity. Due to this reason it is important to protect and fight for what you believe in because it can affect a large group of people and as well as all aspects of your life.

In the famous television show “Star Trek” one of the most recognizable quotes from the original series is when Captain Kirk says “Beam me up Scotty.” He says this in order to be transported back onto the ship from a planet they are on. They do this with the use of the Transporter which is a device to teleport people from the ship onto a target area which converts the subject into energy in a process called “dematerialization” and beamed to the area and reconverted into matter i.e. “rematerialization”. It destroys them and reanimates them but are they the

Who are you? What defines who you are? Why makes you who you are? What is your personal identity? Have you ever sat around pondering the meaning of life, or maybe just your life? Have you asked yourself any of these questions? What were your answers? These are questions that people have been trying to answer since the beginning of time, before me and you were ever born or thought of. People live their whole lives trying to figure out exactly who they are and what their purpose is in life. In the field of philosophy, many philosophers have had theories on personal identity and a person’s “self.” These people have gone down in history books for their theories on a person’s identity: John Locke and Rene’ Descartes. These are two of the most

persons with disabilities, credentialed vs. non-literate, or white vs. persons of color. The strength that I will take is that I was privileged enough to have the credentials of being a part of this social location, that being said does not mean some of those things were handed to me because having an education was something I has to work hard for and not only to get good marks but also to prove to myself and the people that believed that I was going to turn out as a failure. The challenge that I experienced with the social location chart was when someone that has done this and they don’t have the domination qualities would that make them feel as though they are below the domination class. But if so, does it really mean that some are greater than others because of the way they were brought up and that they don’t work as hard as the domination side. These are some of the categories that make civilization judgmental because people look at my ability to walk and use my body to determine that I am in shape to work, going to college means I'm very smart, I'm white means I am better. But overall when someone sees me vs. what I see in myself is different. I could be an able-body that has nobody strengths to work; does that mean I'm strong? I could be a college student

     Two things can happen when we are required to base our definition of “self” on others.  One can take others’ ways of living and thinking, process them, and formulate his or her own definition, independent of anyone else.  Or, one can use the relationships he or she has with other people on which to base their own definition of self, thus making him or her dependent on those other people.  As young people, we learn and take in all we can through the world, our experiences, and relationships with other people.  From there, we grow and establish our own identities, our own “selves”, in response to those interactions with others.  This definition is continually growing and progressing as we evolve as people, interacting with different people in different environments and

The identity of any given individual is, along with the societal representation of the human anima, in many ways, an amalgam of your culture, social views, and all the other constituents of the human psyche. The presence of a complex individual identity, is undoubtedly of the prevalence within the humanity, as compared to any other form of life. This adaptation has allowed our species to form complex social bonds, leading directly to the genesis of society. On one hand, nations, groups or even individuals can struggle to ascertain whether their loyalty is to themselves and their people, or the world as a whole. This can lead to the previously mentioned entity attaining chiefly domestic views, where the single nation they pledge themselves

I have been asked if I were Chinese or Vietnamese because of the color of my skin or name. There was a time when very little knew about the Hmong people and today we are slowly progressing that. Viewing my project it is scant of details to understand my identity, but to myself it is comprehendible. It doesn’t take a lot to know my identity or anyone else’s the most difficult part is to understand them.