How Do We Reflect Our Identity?

Who am I? I, along many others I’m sure, often find myself asking this. Well there is no easy answer to this question. The search for one’s Identity can be a long and painful process. It takes years of self reflecting and a heightened sense of self awareness and acceptance. Our search for identity never end because we as people are always changing.

Intro: That fundamental question: who am I is talking about the life of Alycia Smith. Alycia Smith is a girl who grew up trying to discover who she really is? What is her identity? In her writing she states that she was never comfortable in her own skin, and she took out those feelings out on herself in negative ways. To be honest, sometimes I also feel uncomfortable in my skin, I feel like i don’t belong here.

When I moved from Colombia to the United States on December of 2013, I started studying the language and using it for necessities. Despite of my efforts, I could not got rate of my accent and it made my pass a temporally hard time. People made fun of me and my bad speaking skills. Even though that I was from Colombia, for them I was Mexican. At the beginning it hurt my feelings because I knew that my speaking was not perfect but also it made me stronger, and made me want to improve it every day.

“Community, identity, and stability” is the motto of Aldous Huxley’s fictional futuristic government the World State of A.F. 632. In his science fiction novel, Brave New World (1932), Aldous Huxley expertly satirizes the life and values of his time. Huxley’s use of satire displays his pessimistic view of humankind and the future. Huxley utilizes positive social values of community, identity, and stability presenting a satirized version of society in the World State.

Similarly, in Huxley’s The Brave New World, the rights of self-determination and identity as an individual are removed to “maintain a stable community.” "Everyone belongs to everyone else," whispers the voice in the dreams of the young in Huxley's future world — a discouragement from love and having sense of individuality. In a world that prioritizes stability, everyone is everyone else and being an individual of different thought and desires is implausible. All the manipulative conditioning, and the power of convention mold combine each individuals with another to erase sense of self, perpetuated only for the purpose of running the community smoothly.

Let’s talk about my English accent first. I came to the United States when I was in high school. I considered my English, especially my spoken English, was close to native speakers among the other international students, like Mexican students and European students, because I could recognize their nationalities by hearing them spitted out the first word.

An individual possessing unique attributes and characteristics is what makes up that person's identity. In Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World, citizens of a seemingly utopian society lack both an identity and individuality. Every person in this society was stripped of their individuality, in order to maintain and preserve the ideal community. Huxley’s novel emphasizes the importance or groups and communities as oppose to embracing the differences of what it means to be an individual.

Community, identity, and stability played a major and vital role in the Brave New World Society. It affected every aspect of the characters life and it list the Utopias main goals for the society. The World state used this motto to control the society in subliminal and manipulative techniques and the citizens had absolutely no regard to what the were instilling in them. Their attempts to cultivate each one of these attributes were actually successful in the dystopian society. Community is a result of stability and identity.

Being the first generation in America wasn't easy, I had to learn both custom. At home, we only spoke our language, because my parents were not fluent in English. My parents were not able to assist us with any of our school assignments. I got extra at school because English was not my primary language. I struggled for years and years at school, I had a difficult time comprehending school assignment. I knew my parents had a difficult time adjusting to this

Spanish is my native language, however, my mother advised my siblings and I to speak only English. This was because she was afraid that we would be rejected from professional careers if our English wasn 't unaccented, fluent, and similar in refinement to the working class whites. With time, I became a fluent English speaker with a developed Central American accent but like, any other young girl, I thought nothing of it. That is until one event, in particular, occurred that would cast a shadow of embarrassment onto my Spanish language. This event not only led me to desert my entire native language but a sense of my cultural identity, as well.

I have never really been asked ,” Who am I” . Honestly I don’t know who I am . I think not knowing who I am is okay because I am young and I have time to find out who I am. I am in high school this is where people get a taste of who they are. I don’t think anyone knows who they truly are because of social media, stereotyping and how this generation portray people now. Also because this generation is not comfortable with themselves they always want to be someone else

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.

The issue of whether identity is socially constructed or an innate characteristic remains a contested one. For some, identity is a product of the society, interactions, influence, and practices while for others, it is biological or rather primordial. At the very basic, identity is an essential personal characteristics as it encompasses the membership to different groups, including religion, gender, and ethnicity, the traits people show and what others ascribe to them (Newman 126). Identity locates people in the social world and influences all their actions, thoughts, and feelings. Several renowned thinkers and philosophers offer their

Who are you? Who am I? These are questions that we all ponder at some point or another in our lives. As human beings we are seemingly inundated with the desire to classify and categorise. We are constantly defining and analysing the differences that we observe in the world, it seems only natural that we would apply this method of classification to our position within our society. More specifically, we want to understand our social identities and this can be achieved by acknowledging which groups we identify most with.

The way in which others perceive us can occasionally play a part in the shaping our identity. Our teenage years and our desire to belong both significantly impact who we are today. However, in saying that, it’s evident that as we mature the opinions and views of other become less relevant and are less likely to affect our sense of identity. Your identity defines who you are and is something influenced by various contributing factors.