Throughout history, one important question has stood out to us as a species: what defines us? What makes a person who they are? Is it the way we look or act, or even what we eat? Andy Hinds, author of his own blog Beta Dad and contributor to the New York Times blog Motherlode categorizes his identity not by what he eats or wears, but by his differences from societal norms, namely his disinterest in sports. Likewise, Larry Lehna, University of Michigan-Dearborn graduate and accomplished author of an autobiography, uses his experiences after getting out of prison to portray how the change his environment and the views of others affected who he was. In a similar way, Dana Canedy, author of A Journal for Jordan; A Story of Love and Honor and editor at the New York Times, attempts to explain to her son the importance of embracing his culture and the dangers of rejecting it. These authors display the universal truth that identity is shaped by societal views, environment, and family history.
To begin, the views of society are often monumental in the moulding of one’s identity. Hinds has felt the societal pressures first hand in the form of sports-shaming. Hinds, raised far from the influences of any sports team, never really got into sports. As an adult, this has caused him many awkward encounters of trying to go along with it or having to inform people of his disinterest in sports. He recalls one such encounter of talking to his “...neighbor, a sports obsessed gay guy, [who] had
As far as identity and experiences go, I can easily follow how their effects mold my values and perception of the world. Many aspects of my education and childhood, for example, correspond pretty directly with general areas of privilege. I am White, able-bodied, and have always lived in relative safety. These are traits that I, and others like me, often take for granted, paying little attention to the societal structures that arbitrate them as advantages. Even among the places where my identity does deviate from dominant culture, many seem trivial within a bigger picture: born while my mother was in college, only one parent with a degree, a young childhood with much less money than I remember having in my later years. These, and many others, of course, had their impacts, but not on a scale that prepares me for bigger issues. In many ways, I have led a privileged life, and truthfully, this has made me apprehensive about whether I actually have any qualification that legitimizes me as an authority over countless students whose stories I can barely even fathom in the abstract.
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Who am I? De’Shila Morris and I am a 17 years old, living in Mesquite, Tx. I'm a person with different personalities, characteristics, and identities. The many ways that define who I am. My identity is something I only can fully define. I'm totally outgoing, I am a shy person and at times I feel incredibly awkward around people, especially those that I don’t know. I am the type of person who will hang back and observe strangers before making the decision about whether or not I want to join in with the group.It is because of this that I am often wrongly labeled as being stand offish or antisocial. This could not be further from the truth. I love to be around people once I get to know them, it is just that I am painfully shy at the beginning. Sometimes I wish that I could make people understand this because I am sure that I have missed
The purpose of this report is to create a greater knowledge and understanding of the different values and beliefs that shapes and individuals decision. This report is also going to investigate the impact that Peers, Media, family, culture and religion has on your identity. For this report, I will be analyzing one of two different scenarios that show the factors that influence the identities, relationships and the decisions that teenager has to make.
The identity of one’s self, as well as the curriculum they were exposed to in school can highly have an effect on the student as they choose to advance their education. Which is why I will be talking about how one’s identity is impacted by the curriculum circumstances one is brought upon. Specifically, both Jean Anyon, and James Paul Gee speak of different factors that can have an impact on the student. Gee mentions identity kit, and enculturation, while Anyon mentions the different curriculum knowledge taught upon different social classes.
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I am a student, with a meaningful background and identity. If I did not explain and share my story you would not understand who I am as a person, a student, an athlete, a friend, sibling, or a daughter. Just like any other student I qualify for many titles, but my titles are affected by my identity and background. I am a student diagnosed with a severe mental illness.
It's simple. We don't understand it because we don't want to. We only want to grab onto short lived ecstasies for they are strongly desired by all people. Thus, attainment of these will somehow add an armour of superiority to that person. It brings only temporary happiness, and that too in things that are silly. Imagine a kid breaking the neck of a doll and then being filled with happiness. Maybe its something we simply can not help. Since emotionally dependent infants too display this tendency.
No person puts themselves in the same category as others, each person has different values and perceives themselves completely different than everyone else. An identity is the set of characteristics and the state of being that defines a person and makes them unique. No one decides for themselves what they value; from birth everyone has choices made for them. Parents choose how they want to raise their children and where; all of which are factors that decide who each person is and who they become. The factors that cause for differences in individuals vary, each person is introduced to distinctive experiences that are unique to that person and allow for that individual to develop into a unique identity. Ernest Hemingway’s “Indian Camp” is about
Identity refers to structured sense of self, which manipulates itself in threads of life (Burr, 2015). Figure 1 of Tūrangawaewae shows individuals identity can be classified under our age, our gender (male or female), the values and beliefs we share (religious or non- religious), the experiences ( good or bad), the people we surround ourselves with (friends and family), also not limited to, from our genetic inheritance (ancestors or parents). However, identity threads are not pre inherited but are pre-constructed idea influenced by social experiences (Kahu, 2015). I am a woman, 21 years of age, Christian by faith, Fijian Indian by ethnicity. I use mind set of goals to convey through my identity. For example, excelling
True identity and purpose come only when an individual’s natural abilities are accepted, cultivated and directed towards mutually beneficial ends instead of destructive ones. In the film Predestination directed by Peter and Michael Spierig and the short story “Identities” written by W.D Valgardson, both have irony and the similar theme that humans are assuming identity more then discovering it. In both stories we see how biology is different than identity, which supports that who you are born to be, is different then who you become. In the two narratives both protagonists’ personal identities are in conflict with societies assumptions and conflict with their own predetermined biology.
Many people question themselves, what is it exactly that makes them unique? What is it that defines them as a unique person that no one in the world possesses? In philosophy, these questions do not have just one answer, and all answers are correct depending on which theory appeals most and makes sense to you. In general, there are two ways people approach this question, some say that a person’s identity is the “self” that carries all of their experiences, thoughts, memories, and consciousness (ego theorists), and some say that a person’s identity is just a bundle of experiences and events that a person has been through in their life, these people deny that the “self” exists (bundle theorists). In this paper, I will be arguing that a person’s identity is just a bundle of experiences, denying the self and the memory criterion.
Religion, education, being made in God’s image, circumstances of birth, freedom, fear, and care for others form my identity and the identities of those in the Old Testament. I, like the patriarchs, identify myself by these standards and uphold them even during a challenge because these markers establish who I am as a person and the fundamental principle of my being. By staying true to these markers, I represent my passions while not breaking under the pressure of society.
Just as individuals can vary from culture to culture, so can their use and overall understanding of social location, including what constitutes a social identity depending on the given culture and context. Unfortunately, however, within the context of our American culture—a culture fixated on physicality and its relation to power—social markers, such as gender, race, class, and citizenship, can, ultimately, dictate the level of privilege and/or oppression that a given individual will experience in their lifetime.
The concept of identity and it 's 'shifting influences ' has many forms such as; cultural, social, community, racial, sex and so on. These leave many in society with a “label” or stereotype to their name if they are out of place, unique, 'one of a kind ' or just being themselves and society doesn 't condone this. Such examples would be the novel RAW by Scott Monk and School Ties by Robert Mandel and the short story 'A bullying Story '** by Peter Leavitt all show influences in society where people become someone who they are not.