Dual Identity And Dual Identity

The key issue of identity is addressed and how history as well as culture can be at the core of one’s identity, thus, this can be related to the health and physical education studies of the influence of identity. In year 8 students will complete a unit where they examine how traditions and cultural practices influence personal and cultural identities (Australian Curriculum , 2017).

In the movie “looking for alibrandi the director presents the viewer with the idea that people can attain an enduring sense of both identity and belonging. The director believes that many life experiences compel us to alter our sense of self. Both text, movie and the story of my friend suggest that our identity changes depending on

It outlines the struggle an individual faces in finding stability between developing a sense of forming a unique identity while still being accepted and “fitting in” with society. Erikson believed that when teenagers adequately navigated their way through this crisis, they would transpire into having a clear understanding of their individual identity and easily share this new ‘self’ with others. However, if an individual is unable to navigate their way through this crisis period, they may be uncertain of who they are which can result in a lack of understanding, leading to disconnection from society and the people around them. If youth become stuck at this stage they will be unable to become emotionally mature adults, according to Erikson’s theory. This period of an individual’s life allows them to investigate possibilities which will lead them to discovering their own identity based upon the result of their explorations.

Although I can’t specifically relate to Gloria Anzaldúa’s struggle between her languages in “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” I can relate to her “kind of dual identity” in which she identifies with neither Anglo-American cultural values nor Mexican cultural values (1566). Being half white, half Chinese, I struggle identifying as either identity, especially because my mom (who is Chinese) never learned Cantonese and largely became Americanized in her childhood. It’s an uncomfortable position to be in when racial and ethnic identity are so significant in America and when I must interact with the world as part of both the majority and the marginalized. Considering my own struggle and the conflict Anzaldúa describes, it became clearer to me the way race relations in American not only marginalize people of color but train our consciousnesses to damage ourselves. Before I turn back to Anzaldúa, a novel I’ve recently read, William Godwin’s Caleb Williams has also been on my mind, particularly in Godwin’s portrayal of how police surveillance transforms us into agents of our own oppression. Although Caleb is a white man, he also experiences a split consciousness as his values and characteristics are whittled away by the paranoia of constant surveillance.

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.

This essay is a reflective essay on my learning development from a young age through to my current position as a University Student. I will be relating my learning development back to two theories of human development, Vygotstsky’s socio-cultural theory and Marcia’s version of Erikson’s theory of identity development. I will identify and discuss the challenge I have faced with my identity and how this has impacted on my development.

Educational experiences also tend to influence a person’s identity. I have not had too many educational

A story can be found anywhere; in a book, a place, one's hands. It is this desire for an ongoing narrative that draws me to the possibility of dual enrollment in Renaissance Early Modern Studies and Illustration. Over the last 17 years, I have in essence been practicing for a starring role at Brown RISD. Taking every class I could fit into my day, giving up lunch and the option for a free period, all so I could explore as much as I could, from Intro to Engineering to Art History. Every notebook I own has artwork penned across the pages, my mother often referring to my doodles as art behind bars, as I have a myriad of works created on college rule paper. Rebelling against my parents desire to slow down and pace myself, I had so much I needed

(Bleuler, 1950; as cited in Toates, 2007, p. 540). It is important to highlight momentarily that

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.

How Dual Identity Processes Foster Creativity and How Multiple Social Identities Are Related to Creativity were both written with the same main point. Having multiple identities may positively increase your level of creativity. Personally, saying that people with more than one social identity are more creative is somewhat bias. There are plenty of fields of work that do not need knowledge in more than one culture. I would not argue that people with multiple identities do dominate in most work forces, but these articles seem to discourage people with only one identity. In the first article, Goclowska and Crisp made a model explaining that having more than one conclusion identity can lead to more creativity. They find claims about people with

Correspondingly, the identity defined by Wenger (1998: 127) has five characterizations. According to him, we define who we are by participation and reification (negotiated experience), by the familiar and the unfamiliar (community membership), by where we have been and where we are going (learning trajectory), by the ways we reconcile our various forms of membership into one identity (nexus of multimembership), and by connecting the locality of practice to a broader context (a relation between the local and the global). Wenger’s definition of identity is relatively comprehensive in that it connects individuals in interaction, encompasses boundaries of communities and multiple identities in practice, and includes the past and the future, the

In recent years, identity has been open to discussion and reflection. One's identity has now been subject to change. There are still major cultural categories of identity, for example:

In my opinion, I feel like I have already passed Erikson’s stage of Identity vs. Role Confusion. Up until two years ago, I was however still in the midst of that phase. I was not troubled by the development of an ethnic or religious identity, but I was definitely trying to understand what to do with my life in general. I especially had two concerns: understanding what career I wanted to pursue and whether I wanted to go back to my native country. In these two years I have undertaken many different experiences that allowed me to grow tremendously and that really helped me to understand what my life goals are. In fact, I understood that I want to pursue a career in the healthcare field, more specifically I dream to become an orthopedist, that I would like to keep living in the United States at least until the

As I look back on my journal from the first week of this class I notice how different yet the same my answers to the question “who are you” are. In the first week, I still talked about how I identify as a hard-working college student that strives to meet her goals. I think, still do this day I identify as that. However, now I like to go in-depth with that question. Not only am I hard working but I am hard working because I strive to get my homework done on time, ask questions when I am confused, and participate in class discussions when I have something to input instead of sitting quietly like I typically would. I think that after studying identity for a whole semester I can grasp and identify who I think I