Reflective Essay On Identity

There are many parts of my identity that I can say with certainty that I feel that I consistently embody and perpetuate through my daily actions such as such as my gender, and my sexual orientation, and various other definers such as being a college student, a sister to an older brother, as well as a daughter to a father and mother figure. However, one core part of any people’s identity has been had to express with confidence, my race/ethnicity. I was adopted from China when I was almost a year old in ’97 by my Caucasian parents. I don't often think about my adoptive past as anything but a fact, but there is often day to day moments where I am not sure how to identify definitively. Although I am physically Asian, I can rarely feel like I’m fitting in with even in an environment that is highly concentrated with other Asians. One could say that I have grown up around predominantly white, middle-upper class people and therefore I am one myself. However, it is not realistic to believe that I am anything other than what I am physically although there is almost always a

Over the course of the semester I have crossed many boundaries that I never would have thought of. Whether that be domestically or culturally over the course of the year and with that it has changed my identity. This semester I found who I am more than anything and gave me an approach to how to live within a community that at first I do not know. With this being said I speak most likely for many that college started out scary as we knew no one and had never been away from home this long. I know personally I found my new identity that I never knew that I had because I crossed boundaries. As time goes on identity evolves when you cross domestic and international boundaries.

The town that I lived in was majority black, but most of the wealth was found in the white community. As a person with white skin, I was automatically given a higher status socially and several other privileges, such as growing up in a culture that expected me to achieve academically and therefore have the ability to leave the town. For people of other skin colors, that was not an expectation, and there were many roadblocks to their success, such as poor education and a high crime rate where they lived. It wasn’t until college where I read about oppression, that I began to understand that not confronting the privileges I received from my skin color is part of the problem, a way of maintaining meritocracy. As a woman, I am also the oppressed. I have to ensure that I do not achieve or succeed too much or else I will threaten men, and run the risk of not finding a husband some day. Should I find a husband, I will likely be expected to prioritize family over my career, something not as expected from my husband. My mother stayed at home with us our entire lives, and I often feel the expectation that I will do the

We face daily problem, whether they be superficial or highly subordinative. It doesn't matter what we face, a physical barrier or a mental one, both hurt, both make you feel like there's something in the way of you ever succeeding and making your dreams or aspirations come to life. It takes more than a will, it takes more than a single action, it takes many, it takes you through a journey you’ve never experienced and it is not the same for anyone, there are certain obstacles some people don't face, for example white males do not receive racist commentary or sexist comments, on the other hand a minority women might often be seen as undereducated and not something worthwhile for a person with power and money. A worthwhile experience with a one

Identity theft is a term used to refer to all types of crime in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person's personal data in some way that involves fraud or deception, typically for economic gain. Unlike your fingerprints, which are unique to you and cannot be given to someone else for their use, your personal data ¬ especially your Social Security number, your bank account or credit card number, your telephone calling card number, and other valuable identifying data ¬ can be used, if they fall into the wrong hands, to personally profit at your expense (Weisman).

Upon reflection of my own identity based on the reading I consider myself as a collectivistic and religious person. The main factor that I feel that defines me is that I believe there is a-we in the phrase “we are a team.” Another factor is that I am family oriented, I live with my parents and as a family we make decisions. The fact that God, the Son and the Holy Spirit are united working in our lives is what colors my worldview. I interpret others action, for example, an independent person as someone who was raised by strict parents or maybe was the only child. This helped the child become independent at a young age. Another identity I interpret are men who’s actions are masculine. They probably grew up with a masculine figure of a parent or guardian.

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

Privilege something that I have to fight for every single day for the rest of my life. I have to fight 10 times harder than a white woman or a woman who can “pass” for as white, “Ain’t” I a regular woman too. Society has painted an image that a beautiful women must be of Caucasian decent, long non-kinky hair, blue eyed, with a nice slim body. The reality is that beautiful is different and unique in a variety of way. Why should my skin determine how beautiful I can be, why should my kinky hair be characterized as not beautiful, why should my dark brown eyes make you turn your head, “Ain’t” I woman? Being a woman of knowledge, being a woman where society always tries to bring you down, my personal beauty lies beyond those brown eyes you look

Being an Asian American attending a highly lauded university I may be considered brainy, but at the university my intelligence is perceived based on my GPA and test scores. When I sat in my classroom I am surrounded by endless high caliber, intelligent Asian American students. I have never thought of myself as being highly intelligent or naturally gifted, but I do visualize my identity as someone who works hard to achieve my goals paired with a strong work ethic. It’s a challenge balancing school, work, and being able to take care of family as well. At the university my beliefs and work ethic aligns congruently, although at times I question whether I belong here. I was never a straight A student in high school, in fact when I was in high school

When talking about identity, “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives in a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” Wilde states that everyone is not truly who they are made up of. Most thoughts come from a peer’s opinion. This statement might be factious to everyone at one point in time considering the fact they think they know who they are. Some might come to the conclusion that they, however, do not know what actually makes them up. Many ponder the facts of what makes up a person and how does everyone have the same identity throughout their lifetime. Before discussing the recurring topic of identification of a human being is discovered, we need to know the elucidation of identity. According to Merriam-Webster

Identity not only helped me define who I am, but the concept of identity helped me construct my perception of myself. Confidence is a trait I sometimes lacked throughout my lifetime. Confidence is hard to acquire living in such a competitive, evolving world. Everything in life is a competition. My grades, personality, and confidence all contribute to who I am.

Some of the things that have shaped me into the person that I’m today are my family, the people that I grow up around, and some of the events In my life. There are many events that have shaped me into the person that I’m today and not revengeful. Also the people that I have grown up around has dramatically helped shape me into the person I am and not winsome and irrevocable. My family is one of the main things that have helped shape me into the responsible and capable person I’m yo day. One of my early memories winsome is of my mom working and going to school at the same time to take care of eleven kid son her own. We also used to have a garden and we would go there every day to take care of the plants. But my mom

Crisis of identity has been a powerful conflict throughout American literature. Suffering, destruction, and distress initiate when characters are unable to disengage and disburden themselves from the conflict of who they are. In American literature, crisis of identity can be caused by ethnic background, society, family, history, and other influences. Through the novels, The Joy Luck Club and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the characters are engaged with the theme search for self, which results in them experiencing crisis of identity. Arnold Spirit Jr. is epigrammatic, skillful, creative, and a warrior. Junior is brilliant and fights for his education, but he is bullied and alienated as he transfers schools and attends an all

In my opinion, mental states are not behavioural dispositions, as originally described by behaviourists. Behaviourism was primarily devised to address the flaws of Substance Dualism and present a solution to the mind-body problem. Since then, many other philosophical ideas have provided alternative solutions to the mind-body problem, as well as exposing weaknesses in behaviourism. Behaviourism states that behavioural dispositions are tendencies to react with a certain kind of stimuli. For example, if a person is confronted by a tiger, that person would be disposed to; run away, shout for help and assert ‘there is a tiger.’ This is what is known as a mental state, a stimulus and the relevant dispositions. This theory seems relatively sound

As a white, middle-class, able bodied woman living in the United States, I recognize my privilege and wish to use it to the advantage of helping those who are marginalized and oppressed within our society. While being a woman helps me to understand the struggles of other women, growing up white middle class also brings forth the challenge of being able to empathize with certain clientele. For example, I have never experienced marginalization, exploitation, or oppression the way a young Black woman has. When applying for a job, I have never been concerned with being offered or denied the position because of the color of my skin. I have never been in fear for my life if I am pulled over by a police officer. Privilege as a white person means I don’t necessarily need to worry about job discrimination, policy brutality, or judgement because of my skin color. Even the ignorance of not recognizing that you have privilege is oppressive.