My Personal Identity

Need a hook In this essay I will be talking about 3 major aspects that make up me. The 3 key aspects of my identity are running and art which are my abilities and reading which is one of my values.

For example, in my job I take care of some immigrant’s kid’s fathers, those kids can speak their native language and also speak perfect English. They participate in every activity and also have a clear idea about their origins. On the one hand, there are others kids, who didn’t practice their native language, they are only identifying with the North America culture, because their fathers don’t promote both language in their

In Mother Tongue, an essay written by Amy Tan, the fictional author explains how we all speak different languages and how we are all categorized and treated differently by the way we speak. She gives us examples and stories that have happened to her and how they made her become “fascinated by language in daily life.”

There are many factors that shape us into who we are, and who we will become. Some of these factors we can control, while others we cannot. While we are born into many traits of our identities, much of our other behavior is learned. My identity, for example, is “based not only on responses to the question ‘Who am I?’ but also on responses to the question ‘Who am I in relation to others?’” (Allen, 2011, p. 11). My identity and the question of who I am, are both influenced by many aspects of my life, including my hometown, my family, my friends, and my beliefs and moral values.

My social identity plays a huge part in shaping and defining my role as a leader. The way I view myself combined with the way that others view me frames the narrative of my opportunities to be a leader in many ways. Of my various social identity characteristics, the two that play the largest part in my life are my gender and appearance as a woman and my economic standing as lower middle class.

I feel like the most challenging thing for me was explaining my identity box item. I probably over thought the assignment, but personally finding something that symbolizes my identity or has a deep meaning to me was kind of difficult. I am not really deeply involved in my culture or any of these categories. It made me question whether I should be more in touch with these identities, since I do not feel a strong connection to them. For the most part I feel like these labels separate us and bring us farther apart as human beings. They divide us by what makes us different, instead of focusing on how we are all the same. On the other hand, something I found socially challenging in this class is getting myself to be more involved in participating. Since I have severe social anxiety this class makes me talk more than I normally would in a class. Although, I do not think

Today being able to identify yourself is such a huge controversy. Are you female or male or transgender? These are all labels to me. Determining who you are is much deeper than physical appearance. It’s who you are not what you are. I am trinity. I am a young aspiring neurologist, and I faced many adversities and obstacles that tried to swayed me from my path of success but instead the wind blew from behind and pushed me to excel faster. This wind I speak of the wind that pushes my wa’a or canoe, and the canoe is my method of transportation to my destination. My destination is my goal or destiny and my support is my paddle. I am my paddle. Every crack of faded spot represents my struggles. The first crack presented itself in 2014 when I was diagnosed with graves disease.

When we, as people, speak, we convey our beliefs, morals, and inner thoughts through language; therefore, the way in which we do so reveals a lot about our personalities and lives. After reading the assigned essays, it is clear to me that language plays a vital role in my life and helps to reveal who I am as a person. The language used by myself and the people I surround myself with molds my speaks patterns and life as a whole everyday. Amy Tan, author of “Mother Tongue,” explains better than I ever could how the language that we use and are exposed to changes the type of people we are in general. In one excerpt from the essay, she stated that the language she grew up with molded her beliefs and overall perspective on the world. One of the

I hate when people say “I don’t care if you’re Black, White, Asian, etc.” You should care. Do not erase who I am to make yourself feel comfortable. Do not erase my identity by saying race doesn’t matter. Colorblind ideology will not fix racism. Do not ignore my identity or anyone else’s identity because you’re uncomfortable. Recognize my race and ethnicity and respect that.

I am truly proud of my background and how it has formed my identity. My background consists of me being Portuguese. I could not be any more thankful for how greatly my background has impacted my life into what it is now. It has helped me gain many friends that I am still very close to and gain interests that have started since I was a child. Simply experiencing my family’s numerous customs and traditions is why I love to express that I am Portuguese. It has given me the opportunity to visit Portugal every year during each summer where I fall in love with the country each time. Being Portuguese has taught me many lessons throughout life that I will continue to pass on for future generations of my family.

In a lot of minority households a lot of people grow up learning different kinds of languages. For example, in filhinho households they learn Tagalog and some of their language has spanish words all the while they are learning english as well. Many

It is a well-known fact that children acquire language through their environment. From the time of birth, they are exposed to many different phonetics which allow them to shape words and form language. As parents and families utilize specific words as symbols for different concepts and ideas, children learn that they must use these to communicate their desires. This is evident in everyday life, for example those born in different parts of the world, who grow up hearing a predominant language, grow up speaking that language with all of the same particular nuances, slangs and variations that are present. Therefore, Amy Tan’s claim that “the language spoken in the family, especially in the immigrant families, plays a large role in shaping the language of the child,” is definitely viable.

Until I reached high school, I had never noticed how I was constantly surrounded by white people, and white people only. As an adopted Asian girl who grew up in a white family and community, I have come to learn that the ways strangers perceive me is completely different from my identity. My physical appearance is Asian, however, my connection to my Chinese background is nonexistent. I have never been back to China, I do not know Chinese and I know virtually nothing about Chinese culture. In social and academic settings, people automatically see my physical appearance, making assumptions about my background and ultimately arriving to the conclusion that I am an immigrant who did not grow up in America. Contrary to this assumption, I was adopted at eight-months-old, and have lived my entire life in Minnesota. As a result of this assumption, past teachers I have

Every person builds their own identity; Now which one am I ?  We build our identity by every choice we make. Our identity is the image that we project out into the rest of the world as an image and or reflection of ourselves. Identity is something you have after you are born. It is your personality, your ability to do things, your behavior, appearance choices, and beliefs. I myself am the image of a Mother which society sees as caring, lovable, and protectant; but there’s is more to my identity than these two little human beings of mine. I am also women, a student, daughter, wife, and a friend. I am more and I will continue to stretch beyond their childhood when they no longer need me. Who am I? I am part of my family, friends, and society and my

Frantz Fanon once conveyed, “To speak a new language is to take on a new world, a culture.” This is the reality for billions of active foreign language learners globally. As they embark on a linguistic journey, they gradually find out that their native culture may not coincide with the new culture ascribed to the new language. As such, this experience could be exhilarating or discombobulating, contingent on how receptive the individual is. The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the relationship between language and culture. The relationship is evident in that language mirrors a culture which bears the personal values and perpetuates the identity of an individual.