Finding My Role In Shaping My Personal Identity

It school we identified our self as Hispanic, not Mexican, or Salvadorian. Friendships were build by what you like to play, not where you were born. Food was good not matter what. I spend my childhood living in South Central surround by African Americans and other Hispanic. My identity took an impact in adulthood, when I need to define my self on who I was. In fact, as adult people think I am Mexican because I do not look or sound like Salvadorian. What that means? My skin color is not dark like most Salvadorian, the way I talk do not include “vos”, “sipote”, or “chupa”. Most of my life, I have been identify as Mexican then Salvadorian. Now that I live in East Los Angeles, people automatically think I am Mexican with no doubt. Its when I say, yes I am Salvadoran and live in East L.A, not Pico

I wasn’t allowed to claim the thing I felt and I didn’t feel the thing I was supposed to claim” (Henriquez 78). Mayor is born in Panama, but he only lived there for a year. He does not remember anything about the country. He relies on the stories from his brother, mother and father to imagine the country he was born in. He feels little connection to Panama. He has lived in America most of his life, and all his memories were made in America. Although he wants to claim he is American, he finds it difficult because the students at school often bully him and make fun of where he came from. He feels as if the community that he wants to claim does not accept him because he was not born in America. Mayor is confused about his identity. On the contrary, Mayor’s mother, Celia, has no problem claiming she is Panamanian and American. She has deep roots in Panama, and she is a U.S citizen who takes advantage of privileges as an American. For example, she is a consistent voter when it comes to who will be president, and she is proud of doing her duty as an American. Unlike Mayor, she is able to appreciate both sides to her and have a clear self- image. I was born in America, but I am ethnically Haitian. Sometimes I feel more Haitian and other times I feel more American. Sometimes I do not know whether I am to say I am Haitian, because I was not born in Haiti nor have I ever been there. However, I have come to accept both, like Mayor’s

Whenever I am asked to describe where I grew up, I always find this difficult for me to answer. Simply because, I have lived in five different locations, spanning three different continents, all before the age of seventeen. As a result of growing up in a military-oriented lifestyle, the concept of constantly moving around was nothing new to me. Rather than view it as a shortcoming, I grew fond of the idea of moving to somewhere new—to a location where I have yet to explore and integrate myself into. Thus, due to my exposure to a multitude of cultures and individuals from all walks of life, this has affected how I move through the world’s space. In this paper, I will be discussing how the following concepts of my subject position: my ethnicity, culture, and identity as child of a retired U.S. Airman reflect Gloria Anzaldúa’s discussion of la mestiza.

I was born in a big city called Baltimore, MD, but raised in a small town called Saint Stephen, SC. My mother had to relocate in order to take care of my ailing great-grandfather. While working toward her

I was born in Montrose, Colorado. Yet, I didn't spend much of my life roaming around it's land. When I was three, my parents had an epiphany, decided to buy an RV, and take my brother and me to Mexico on exhilarating and exotic adventures.

According to Psychologist Abraham Maslow in “Self-actualization and Beyond,” self-actualization is a process in which one identifies his inner ability to do something productive. Once this inner talent comes out, that’s when a person actualizes himself. He believes that every individual self-actualizes, and while doing so one might make many wrong choices. Sonny and his older brother are faced with several obstacles while being on a journey to self-actualization in “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin. However, these obstacles not only come from their surroundings, but within themselves as well. The narrator himself and his younger brother, Sonny struggle with, and gradually develop their own

This client’s name is Tyler Harker. (He is a fourteen-year-old male student who has type 1 diabetes mellitus. Tyler’s primary caregiver is himself and his mother. He is in the psychosocial stage of identity versus role confusion. The cognitive stage of this client is formal operational. Tyler is the learner. He speaks English and does not have any disabilities related to learning, has no other pre-existing health conditions, and no sociocultural factors that may impede learning. The client identifies his strengths as being able to take care of himself and being independent. His motivation to learn seems to be strong as evidenced by behaviors of listening, nodding, and sitting straight up in a chair with arms open. The client has good reading and comprehension at his age level as indicated by him reading out of his school history book. Indications that suggest the client has the ability to problem solve include him being able to come up with concepts and alternatives. The home environment is very clean, uncluttered and organized and requires no modifications. If the client cannot carry out his care, his mom and dad are both available and in-tune with how to give Tyler’s care. Other support available for Tyler include his peers, church group, and diabetes camp he attends yearly. Tyler is ready to deal with his own self-care and motivated to learn [Hunt, 2009].)

Whenever I am asked to describe where I grew up, I always find this difficult for me to answer. To further complicate matters, I have lived in five different locations, spanning three different continents, all before the age of seventeen. As a result of growing up in a military-oriented lifestyle, the concept of constantly moving around was nothing new to me. Rather than view it as a shortcoming, I grew fond of the idea of moving to somewhere new—to a location where I have yet to explore and integrate myself into. Thus, due to my exposure to a multitude of cultures and individuals from all walks of life, this has affected how I move through the world’s space. In this paper, I will be discussing how the following concepts of my subject position: my ethnicity, culture, and identity as child of a former service member reflect Gloria Anzaldúa’s discussion of la mestiza.

Personal identity is essential in the human experience. Identity is complex and can be broken down into two main groups: introspective identity, and bodily identity. Introspective identity is based off of the groups, mentalities, or beliefs that you align yourself with, and bodily identity is based off of the physical side of yourself. Whether physical or introspective, your identity impacts every action you take. Whether choices ranging from what colors you prefer to which college you want to attend are primarily based off of your introspective identity, which is a combination of both memory and consciousness, physical identity impacts how others perceive you. Consciousness is mainly the awareness of bodily identity as well as continuous introspective identify, while memory is awareness of introspective identity. These two different facets of identity are imperative in the distinction between bodily identity and introspective identity. In means of personal identity introspective identity (which is evident in memory), is essential, while bodily identity (based partially in consciousness) has less credit.

A person’s identity is shaped by many different aspects. Family, culture, friends, personal interests and surrounding environments are all factors that tend to help shape a person’s identity. Some factors may have more of an influence than others and some may not have any influence at all. As a person grows up in a family, they are influenced by many aspects of their life. Family and culture may influence a person’s sense of responsibilities, ethics and morals, tastes in music, humor and sports, and many other aspects of life. Friends and surrounding environments may influence a person’s taste in clothing, music, speech, and social activities. Personal interests are what truly set individuals apart. An individual is not a puppet

Everyone has an identity, and it is our identity which defines who we are and our place in society. Our identities help other people to draw conclusions about who we are, as well as, spotlight values and beliefs. Our identities have the power to positively or negatively affect how we live our lives, as well as, have the power to affect how we interact socially. Identities can be shaped and molded by the communities in which we live, the schools we attend, churches where we worship, the sports in which we participate, our race, gender, and physical features. Many of my friends, family, and acquaintances, describe my identity as being strongly influenced by my disability, my family values, and my fiercely independent nature. Prior to writing

Brown skin, brown eyes, dark hair, these are the first things people subconsciously notice about me. As a Latina growing up in the United States I have always struggled to find balance in my identity; either I am too Latina or not Latina enough. This mentality kept me from embracing my Latina heritage and being myself.

Going into this project I was in a little bit of an Identity crisis myself. I was trying to find out where I fit with my parent's hardships back in Ethiopia and as a first-generation student in America. I was trying to figure out how this all ties together within the American society I live in. With the prompt “some students have a background or identity that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it.” I believed it was time for me to bring these questions out onto paper. At the time I was in 10th grade in a summer course I honestly didn’t want to be in. However, because of that I definitely was not the only Rhetor for this paper. In fact, for most of my paper, I spoke via the eyes of those other rhetors, My father was one of the first and most important rhetor in my piece. Just hearing his story of being down on his luck all his life and finally getting the chance to come to a place where he may have an opportunity, not for himself, but for his children was gut-wrenching. It was the central piece of my paper both personally and narratively. The next biggest rhetor in my paper was my mother. She always had her head peeking from the corner the entire process. She continuously urged me to tell more about her and my father in my essay to a point where my teacher began to worry that if I add any more about my parents I'll hit the word limit without talking at all about myself. The final significant Rhetor in my essay was a long time family

Everybody has an identity, it makes them individual and unique, and it defines who you are as a person. This project about my identity showed me what makes me unique. I would have never known how much my friends mean to me or how my identities connect with each other. I have three identities that make me who I am, cultural, personal, and social. A specific quality that covers my cultural identity is being Czechoslovakian. Both sides of my family have at least a part of Czech in them. My great-grandparents are from Czech Republic and my grandpa was the first generation in America, he was born in Ohio. This is very important because I have always identified as Czech and it is a big part of me, as I am so interested in ancestry. For my personal identity, the biggest part is my personality, being loud and outgoing, has always been important to me. The reason being, it is how people view me. A lot of people know me as the loud person or the person who talks a lot. That is meaningful to me considering I like people to view me in a certain way The last identity, social, is one of the most important to me because it involves my friends, and through this project, I learned how vital they really are to my social identity. I realized that I have a good amount of friends in this project. It is nice to have people as a support system and to relate with. These qualities show that I value being loud and outgoing. It also says that I value my family and they are a big part of life. The last one, social, ties in with the first one because it shows I am outgoing and friendly.

As mentioned before I was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Aside from traveling abroad on family vacations, I 've had the opportunity to be exposed to several cultures throughout my life. I lived in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, for 6 years due to my father 's work;