Personal Statement On Identity And Personality

There’s various things that describes everyone, but there’s only a few things that make each and every one of us unique, which is, our cultural background. As far as cultural background, it defines the individual’s upbringing. The cultural background includes ones religion, race, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic factors, linguistic and values. These values can be shaped by family, friends, society, or authoritative level. This paper is a great way for one to define my identity or at least understand who I am.

With given a choice of what to write this paper, I could not get past the subtle nature of who we are as God’s creations. This fundamental truth of our identity is simplified with the truth of our identity in Jesus. We are created in God’s image with a purpose here on earth to display all of God’s greatness, His beauty, and to reveal all of His character aspects. Best of all, we are completely dependent on God. This new enlightenment of my identity in Christ as God’s creation will allow me to help people around the world become one with Christ by revealing the truth of their identity.

A person’s identity is formed based on a variety of different factors. Every day, each individual on this planet is currently developing the elements of establishing an actual identity. An identity can be built through culture, family, friends, personal experiences, aspirations, interests, and even genetics! Some aspects tend to have a greater impact on creating a persons’ identity, and other aspects tend to have greater importance in a persons’ life than others. These factors are what make each and every one of us unique. Since the day was born, our parents have contributed significantly in developing our identities. Their guidance and better judgment have to lead us to become the human beings we are today. Not to mention, some of our

“We are not born knowing who we are or what our place is in the social landscape; we learn to be American or Japanese, male or female, husband or wife, or Amy, Richard, Micheal, Rachel, or Rebecca.” Our identities are constructed by this “social landscape”. The social construction of identity takes place by living life through first hand experiences and through certain social circumstances. Amartya Sen says,” Classification is certainely cheap, but identity is not. More interestingly, whether a particular classification can plausibly generate a sense of identity or not must depend on the social circumstances.” Identity is a complex matter but can be defined in simple terms. It is who you are. Your personality, the way you act in response to

As of today, the most important aspects of my intersectionalities are my age and race. When I was a child, my mother would often specifically say a Chinese word and show the object itself. The one I can recall most clearly is “Li”, which means pear. Furthermore, she would exhibit various things that are from Chinese culture, such as a Chinese New Year festival and dragon dances on television, the Chinese dragon my brother made in preschool, or Chinese music. Also, I was addicted to fried rice at a young age and I often consumed at Asian restaurants, persuading me to accept my background. As a result, I perceived that my Chinese heritage was an idiosyncratic aspect of myself, making it a foremost aspect of my identity. Furthermore, I was born

When looking at ones identity many thing can come in to play. Where are your family from? What are your religious believes? What is your place in society? These thing make up who someone is.

One aspect of my identity which has shaped my life tremendously, is being the only natural born citizen born into a family composed entirely of immigrants. My family, including my grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and further extended relatives all immigrated to America from Albania. For some of my family, like my grandparents, they immigrated here when they were already very old, for others like my sister, this happened when they were only two years old. My parents immigrated to America with my sisters when they were middle ages, and I was born here soon after. Out of all of the large family that I have, I am the only one of all of us, who was born in America. This is an aspect of myself which has made me grow and shape into the person I am. It has affected my identity and life in many ways that I have come to realize and many that I’m sure I have yet to understand.

Several would consider my upbringing atypical. I never had the suburban home, the middle-class family, or the perfect little hometown experience. I consider my childhood to have been a trial. A challenge from the universe to prove it, and everyone who ever judged me, wrong. Proving them wrong is what I intend to do.

Growing up in Nepal, have always been interested on what identity is. Although being refugee, identity was not important. But when I became U.S. citizen, identity became important part of life. Identity provides the meaning of who I am? But meaning of who I am is shaped by different aspects. We should be clear that othering, culture, friendship and surrounding environment’s impact on people’s identity and also shape people’s identity.

I chose to interview my nephew, Jeremy for this paper. Jeremy and I are members of the same family; but, have different racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds. My family is a very large family and consists of; six brothers, sister in- laws, and fifteen nieces and nephews. My brother, Joe, married an African-American women (Sandra) and had two sons; but, they look nothing alike. Surprisingly, Jeremy’s appearance is African-American and Anthony looks Caucasian.

Barbara is a female whose age, sex/gender, race/ethnicity, relationship status, student/employment status, living situation, environmental context are all unknown.

To be an American is to have traits of freedom the thing that the founding fathers counted on is to have the will to speak freely and to have the will of religion in the constitution it say that every citizen should have life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This impacts and brings everyone from different places to help create a society that is free. The founding fathers also counted for the people to speak for what is right. The reason is because this helps out on what the people want instead of the government wants this goes to show that the people matter and that is what makes a person happy and also makes a person feel like they have the pursuit to be happy.

Background. My application paper addresses a relationship that I have with a colleague of mine who I met in the Fall of 2013. My colleague's name has been changed for privacy purposes. The first interaction with Stephen came when I was pledging a fraternity on campus. Stephen was a handsome guy, he spent a good amount of his time to maintain his physique and professional appearance.

What’s different about me from the other submissions is that I have come through hardships. When I was three my mother went to jail and I had to live with my grandparents. Eventually they got a divorce and I had to move again. It’s hard moving to a place where everyone already has friends, where no one wants to be friends with the new girl. I ended up with no friends, eventually later in my high school years I found a few good friends. I was bullied for being overweight. Being overweight is bad because it’s not only bad for your health but it gives you restrictions on stuff you like to do. Like walking and playing games with your friends. Games as in football or soccer. I grew up believing that being over weight makes you ugly. I always had very low self esteem but I’m getting passed that where I’m pretty by being myself. Another hardship I got through was with my father. Your probably thinking why I didn’t go live with my father. Well me and his wife didn’t get along. After I turned 12 I decided that I didn’t want to visit them on the weekends, they started blaming me for it. I fell through this

I was born _name__ on _date__ in _place__. I am a son, brother, uncle, nephew, cousin, and friend. I was desperately shy as a small child, but grew out of it. My teen years were happy times sports, friends, summers spent in __place_. It all helped shape me into who I am today. My interests are many. I have always enjoyed reading about history and follow the history channel faithfully. I love music. It's been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. I find it calming when life gets rocky.