Eassy On Identity

There are many parts of my identity that I can say with certainty that I feel that I consistently embody and perpetuate through my daily actions such as such as my gender, and my sexual orientation, and various other definers such as being a college student, a sister to an older brother, as well as a daughter to a father and mother figure. However, one core part of any people’s identity has been had to express with confidence, my race/ethnicity. I was adopted from China when I was almost a year old in ’97 by my Caucasian parents. I don't often think about my adoptive past as anything but a fact, but there is often day to day moments where I am not sure how to identify definitively. Although I am physically Asian, I can rarely feel like I’m fitting in with even in an environment that is highly concentrated with other Asians. One could say that I have grown up around predominantly white, middle-upper class people and therefore I am one myself. However, it is not realistic to believe that I am anything other than what I am physically although there is almost always a

She describes on being humilating and feeling hopeless, as well as lost. She makes it clear when the lady in the mini van is talking to her, and she starts to get lost in thought. Thinking about getting out of prison and her fiance Larry. When the guard started to mimick her response when Kerman would talk, made her feel dumb too. As soon as Kerman puts on her inmate clothing, she feels like a new person. Her identity is stripped away, and from there on she has to get used to her new life now in prison.

Within the past couple of weeks, I had the opportunity to engage in a religious minority event. I attended the Hillel Jewish Center here on Purdue’s campus. Hillel is the largest Jewish campus organization in the world, and I found it very fascinating that I got to take part in this new learning experience. I am from a small town where everyone knows everyone, and there is very little diversity in race or ethnic groups. I was raised in a Christian family and I attended church every Sunday. I have never been around such diversity until I came to Purdue. Through my education classes, and the events that I have attended on campus my cultural knowledge has grown so much since I first started attending Purdue. I had very little knowledge of the

The human identity is a complex thing and quite confusing. The search for purpose and self discovery is one that all people must face. Identity is who a person is, what activities they enjoy, their favourite foods, favourite movies, sexual orientation, and gender identity. No person is absolutely sure of their identity as people are always changing and evolving, this may result in differing views than they once had and this change results in once again trying to discover one’s self. This journey to discover one’s identity has been documented in many short stories and novels over the past few decades. These stories help demonstrate the complexity and confusion that is associated with identity and the potentially negative effect that the environment has on one’s search for identity.

Religion, whether we realize it or not, is a major element of American society (and also worldwide history). For many, religion is a significant part of their cultural identity. Religion plays a part in all levels of politics and is often an aspect of community events and organizations. Everyday, we all interact with people who have different religious backgrounds and personal beliefs. Children born into religious families are very connected with their religions from birth and this affects the way they will see the world for the rest of their lives. Even those who later explore other faiths or convert to other religious ideas will be affected in

As we go about our daily life, remaining naïve to religious diversity will only set us back. Clearly, the diversity of religions of the world floods American history (Gross, n.d.). In addition, it has also brought about a strong tendency to display hostility toward different religious positions (Gross, n.d.).

The country where I was born and raised has rich customs and traditions influenced by different cultures around the world. Among these shared cultures, I am accustomed to living a life anchored in the Catholic faith. I was brought up in a God-fearing home that believes in the power of prayer. The influence of my parents on my faith has a huge impact on the way I embrace life and its challenges.

Both of my parents were born and raised in religious household, one in an Irish Catholic suburb of St. Louis, and the other a small Roman Catholic town in rural Spain. By the time they were young adults both had rejected the religiously institutions they had grown up in. My brothers and I were raised in a house, which viewed religion indifferently resulting in us never receiving formal religious instruction. I grew up a scientist. I quickly developed a passion for science and mathematics, and found particular interest in areas of those fields supported by empirical evidence and had undergone trial by scientific method. I found comfort in the structure provided by my faith in our scientific exploration into the laws that govern the form and

The principles of liberation and acceptance help to establish a sense of belonging and fellowship in the world. In a modern and rather censorious society, it can be rather difficult for people to be accepting of this concept. All people, no matter what their ethnic background, should be granted the right to freely express themselves through their cultural practices without having to endure the constant hurdles of ignorance and prejudice that surround them. However, some individuals argue that too drastic of a change in religious secularism would pose a threat to America’s traditional customs. Though controversial at times, diversity is an inevitable concept that needs to be discussed more openly, especially in the classrooms of early childhood.

My identity is more than just what people say or the moments in my life that has changed it. From the classroom to outside in the real world, my identity is me being African American Male that has taken the situations that were given to me and plan to prevail through them. Within Tatum’s piece (Tatum, B. (2000). Readings for diversity and social justice. New York: Routledge.) she also goes to speak about dominant and subordinate groups. Myself has came to find out that can be considered both because of my race and my gender. Being a male is considered a dominant in comparison to females, whereas being African American is considered a subordinate in comparison to being caucasian. With those things into consideration my identity was not

In my view, I think there are two factors that are improtant for indentity. One is defining a country's identity through language, and the other is define ourselfves through the roles that we play. Lanuage is a symbol of a nation, and it also symbolizes the identity of a nation. For example, according to the article by Talyor(2017), the author claimed that"lanuage binds a nation together is not suprising." So, no matter how many religious beliefs or cultural customs a country has, it must have only one offcial language in this country. On the hand, we also need to figure out the role we play in society or family, so that we can our things better. For instance, through the reading " Identity: how doyou define yourself” by Morrison(2015), the

fostering diversity in faith and culture with a level of maturity that rivals that of many adults, while exhibiting the

When talking about identity, “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives in a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” Wilde states that everyone is not truly who they are made up of. Most thoughts come from a peer’s opinion. This statement might be factious to everyone at one point in time considering the fact they think they know who they are. Some might come to the conclusion that they, however, do not know what actually makes them up. Many ponder the facts of what makes up a person and how does everyone have the same identity throughout their lifetime. Before discussing the recurring topic of identification of a human being is discovered, we need to know the elucidation of identity. According to Merriam-Webster

Throughout my Welcome Week experience, I have found myself often repeating the line “I am one of seven children”, a line which is almost immediately followed by an acceptable explanation, “We’re Irish Catholics”. Stereotypes aside, I have now come to realize how my parents influenced my own spirituality. On any given Sunday, my family of nine could be seen wandering into St. Matthew Cathedral a few minutes past nine o’clock and the casual observer would notice my mother teaching the youngest child how to bless herself with holy water and genuflect towards the tabernacle. I was sent to a Catholic grade school beginning in pre-school where I began to question whether religion class would ever teach me more than the oft repeated fact that “Jesus

Wade and Tavris’s Invitation to Psychology defines religious affiliation as a choice made by a person of which particular belief system they will live according to. Furthermore, “whether a person is a Methodist, Muslim, Catholic, Jew, Hindu, and so on, is not heritable”. The religious group people choose to belong to has a lot to do with influence from several factors, including the affiliation of their “parents, ethnicity, culture, and social class” (142). Conversely, the term religiosity is defined as “a person’s depth of religious feeling and adherence to a religion’s rules” (142), and contrary to affiliation, has a genetic component. Growing up in the Episcopal church, God has always been a part of my life. As I have grown up, however, I have continuously assessed my religiosity regarding my faith. Using the book’s definition, I believe my religiosity is subtle yet traditional. But when it comes to my own beliefs, there are several factors that have shaped the way I perceive God, faith, religion, and their role in my life.