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Identity Achievement occurs when someone makes a personal decision or commitment after going through a crisis and exploring his or her option.

Identity shows who the person is. However, an issue will show someone's identity. These days people creates somebody identity by their look, the way people act, the manner people speak. The identity is from family however people aren't able to believe that identity they decide their own manner. Identity comes from teams too. For an example, if you keep in unhealthy people company then your identity are counted as same as them. People can decide you same because of the cluster. Identity comes from society to that is analogous to the cluster. Therefore these days it will depend on upon who you hang around with (groups) and wherever you reside in your identity will come back from that in individual’s opinions. You’ll be able to produce your identity by yourself.

Identity is a group of characteristics, data or information that belongs exactly to one person or a group of people and that make it possible to establish differences between them. The consciousness that people have about themselves is part of their identity as well as what makes them unique. According to psychologists, identity is a consistent definition of one’s self as a unique individual, in terms of role, attitudes, beliefs and aspirations. Identity tries to define who people are, what they are, where they go or what they want to be or to do. Identity could depend on self-knowledge, self-esteem, or the ability of individuals to achieve their goals. Through self-analysis people can define who they are and who the people around them

In order for someone to define themself, it requires looking deep into their life experiences and determine what has helped form us into who we are. We cannot define our self by our others see us, but only by who we truly know we are.

Work creates an identity for a person also. Whether its promotions to a higher position or being unsatisfied and distraught with their job. People who enjoy their job and work environment will create more of a confident identity compared to someone who does not will have an un-motivated identity. School has an impact as well when it comes to identity. It is where a children, adolescents, and adults are influenced by acquiring knowledge and constantly being surrounded by peers. Through school, memberships in friendship groups, cliques, or "crews" helps build an identity apart from their relationship to parents. However, over-identification with a clannish group that rejects anyone who looks or acts different can limit personal growth.

The theory behind this study is that identity development is an important factor in academic achievement. So therefore, stating

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.

Our perception of our identity is constantly changing, the groups we belong to, the people we talk to and the way we connect with others help to form our identity. There is one thing we all have in common despite our individual identities, is the need to belong. There’s no obligation to belong to only one group, you can belong to many. An individual can belong to many groups, which will then create multiple identities; hence our understanding of identity is never constant. Belonging to a loving family, group of caring friends that help us to develop our own sense of self. However, belonging can have a negative side. For example our families might have an expectation of us to do something that might alter our ambitions and interfere with

“Build your character thoughtfully and painstakingly upon these precepts, and by and by, when you have got it built, you will be surprised and gratified to see how nicely and sharply it resembles everybody else’s” (639). One’s character or identity determines where you fit into society. Identity is who a person or thing is, or is classified as. Most people judge their social identity by comparing themselves to others. They accomplish this by comparing what they have in common, and by what they have accomplished in their lives so far. People try to find their identity by evaluating all their different types of roles they acquire on a daily basis.

Identity is something we search for, something we want to find out about ourselves. We want to know what we are here for and what’s our purpose. Identity is the way one sees themselves and our identity is all we have that 's why we protect it and always are trying to make ours better than the others. I believe college is a time where we find our identity, maybe we have an idea on what it is going to be and sometimes it takes us many years to figure it out.

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

There is a range of views expressed as to the reactions people have to criticisms from either the in-group or the out-group; the majority of such opinions suggest that people prefer to hear criticisms from people within their group than outside their group. Participants were given a vignette based on a criticism which they were either led to believe came from a member of the in-group or a member of the out-group. The results showed that participants responded with a lower sensitivity to negative emotions if the criticism originated from a member of the in-group compared to from the out-group. The mean results from the out-group totals to 4.46 compared to the mean results from the in-group which totals to 3.784.

Social identity theory, it is a person’s sense that is based around the group they are in, either by their personal identity or with different kinds of social identities. That is, people will try to improve their own image of themselves. The theory was proposed by Henri Tajfel. People can increase their self-esteem by both their own achievement and interaction with a successful group of people. This shows the importance of social belonging. This theory is based around three mental processes, social categorization, social identification and social comparison.

As soon as we are born, we are subject to labels. They afflict our society and people on the individual level. Before we even begin to understand ourselves, people put labels upon us. This inevitably influences those who are labeled to view themselves based on labels, which are ultimately social constructs. Even in the twenty-first century, American society is embroiled in racial issues, which are rooted in the label of race and the divisions it causes. By creating labels and applying them to individuals, people are expected to fit into certain life “scripts” based on these labels. Kwame Anthony Appiah, in “Racial Identities” keenly describes “collective identities” and the issues that they cause. The effects of racial identities are extensive and extreme; they play an inherent role in who I am and they are deeply grounded in the history of America.

My racial and ethnic identity are tied to my everyday experiences. I identify as African American or black because it’s my culture. I born by two black parents and grew up in a black household. Although I was often told by my parent I am black, I would say that the term “Black” was given to me before I even entered the world. The term “Black” was given to Africans by Europeans when they took us as slaves to the Americas. Ever since then, the one drop rule applied to anyone with African heritage in the United States. In Abby L. Ferber’s article “What White Supremacist taught a Jewish Scholar About Identity,” she proves that race is a social construct. While researching the readings of white supremacists, she found that white supremacists view Jews as a race, rather than a religion or ethnically. Their perception of Jews being a race was socially constructed and imposed on Jews by the dominant group. Additionally, in “Italian Americans and Whiteness” by LaChrista Greco, she tells the history of Italians Americans’ assimilation into mainstream America through her own identity. When Italians first came to the United States, they were seen as non-white. As time progressed, Italians Americans asslimiared into mainstream America, through the lost of culture, and were now classified white. The experiences of Greco and Ferber prove that race isn’t biological, but something that is socially constructed through the dominant group. In short, race isn’t a category one chooses, but a