Interview Essay: Personal Identity

Entering high school from your nearby middle school, there’s going to be a handful of people. There’s going to be the ones you are confident you’re going to talk, laugh, and continue to make memories with, the ones you doubt you’ll ever speak to, and ones you have yet to ever meet. Something I learned quickly, is that there’s so many people and your connections with them change constantly and they can change you.

Although people generate a separate profile for each individual they meet, sometimes the profiles are incredibly different. In high school everyone befriends many persons of different races, personalities, as well as social groups, yet we tend to befriend remarkably similar individuals. Rarely do we realize, some people are actually more different than we know. Freshman year, I entered into a world all different than what I was used to, but yet I made two amazing friends. Jessica and Amber both loved school, friends, and doing art outside of school. Although between them are many differences, but a few stand out from the others. College and work ethic, their personalities, and talents differ greatly.

The author starts off the passage talking about “self” or more broadly personal identity. He makes an argument about identity, stating that because the “self” must be a stable,non-stop thing, and regular. Yet all the things we grasp are copied from impressions, which are brief, and short term, so it shows we do not really have knowledge of “self” thus there is not self or at least be skeptic to the issue. The problem the author is trying to resolve is that we do not really know our self. He goes onto to argue that if you try to think about yourself” you really can’t. If you do, the only thing you can think about are separate words, such as fat, skinny, dark, etc. It shows that all “you” are is a bunch of words, and that in reality there is no such thing as “self.”

This year, I’ve made the best friends of my life but my first impression of each of them was so different from the people that I went on to know and love. From an outside perspective I saw them as too high up on the social scale to associate with me. They were extremely intimidating. Yet the fiery haired Kim turned out to be a sweetheart and the quiet, sporty Bri is my personal voice of reason. I was afraid of my future best friends because I didn’t see our similarities, all I saw were our differences.

The purpose for this interview assessment is to measure an individual’s personality by having two interviewees who know them very well answer questions about them. The Informant Report Data approach and the qualitative method are used for this test. The reliability, validity, and generalization of the test are examined separately in order to see how effective they are. The results provide characteristics of the individual and a reflection of their personal thoughts about the test. The findings concluded low degree of reliability and validity. The generalizability of the assessment was found to be moderately applicable to others. In my reflection, I concluded a pattern from the Self interview assessment and found motivation from my interviewees’ answers.

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My Cultural Identity is my life, my life is more about what I do in my life. My cultural identity is about what I do in life like I love sports, and that in my cultural because everyone in my family played a sport in life. Baseball is my favorite sport because that’s something my pops taught me how to play. My family is raised in the country so we love to go trail ride and we love to ride fourwheelers and all. I’m from and was raised lafayette, louisiana. I was raised in the country but I have some city in me, but most is country.

I was born on the big island in waimea on April 5th, 2001. My parents let my grandfather name me. He said he wanted my name to mean something fierce so that’s how he came up with Kamana. A few things that make up my cultural identity is my beliefs, what i like to do, and my friends. I know there is more to me then i realize right now I can’t really figure it out, I never had both of my parents in my life for that long so they never really taught me about my culture. I feel like my life's a garden with a bunch of undiscovered plants, just waiting to be found.

Likes: rice (the jasmine scented ones), cats, anime, soya milk, and staring at her iPad for hours

I am black. I know it isn't hard to see my color but can you see who i really am on the inside? I may be black but i like dubstep, rock, video games, J-pop, and junk food. My cultural identity sets me apart from the rest. First of all i don't like watermelon, i don't like chicken that much and i don't listen to rap all the time.

Many people say that an embryo is not really a person, or that it has no identity. It is a great way to avoid the moral debate, because all you have to say is, “Well they aren’t even people; they have no individuality.” I am going to shred that thought, because the simple truth is this: personal worth and identification can not be taken away by ignorant people who do not want to face the consequences of their actions or words!

Topic B: Some students have an identity, an interest, or a talent that defines them in essential way. If you are one of these students, then tell us about yourself.

The goal of this case study is to help me get a better understanding of identity in an adolescent, particularly the idea of identity roles (future career and education). I believe that for my case, the 15 year old will have a general idea of their identity. Identity according to Erik Erikson is having a sense of who and what you want to be as well as coming to terms with yourself, such as the way you look. To do this case study, I intend to do an interview because it’s better to have that one on one with an adolescent. This is the better choice because I can also see into their cognitive thinking, what they don 't show in person or physically, doesn’t even make up for half the things going on in their head. Personally it would be hard to follow this student around the high school and gain consent from all of their teachers, which why I chose to do an interview instead. The interview questions that I used were all from the Internet because I could not think of any questions off the top of my head. This was very useful because I was able to give my interview very quickly because I had everything in front of me. The questions ranged from “what do you want to be when your older?” to “if you can change one thing about yourself, what would it be?” These are just a couple of the questions used to help me get a better understanding of the 15 year old.

My family has brought me up with conservative views. When I was younger I never questioned their reasoning so I usually followed their beliefs and how it played into politics. At first I was a part of the Republican party but I didn’t know all of their different beliefs and I don’t agree with all of them. My parents were born in Romania and my great grandfather was a pastor during the time of Communism during the reign of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, so naturally they are deeply conservative.

Identity. Having my own sense of identity is something that I never really thought that I had a problem with, until I enrolled in college. Growing up I always thought that I had my whole life figured out. I was going to go to college, get a degree in broadcasting and then go to work for a news station in a big city. After my first semester, I realized that wasn’t what I wanted to do, and then set in the panic of figuring out who I was and what I wanted to do with my life. Even if you asked me now, I’m not totally locked in on what I am going to do and who I am.