Personal Identity

Many people tend to view that personality is shaped, stable, identifiable, unique, clearly bounded, fixed behavior and accomplished. Most people in primarily in Western cultures have been taught to think of their selves as individual containers that enclose their unique essence(Steward, 2012, p.78).But Lately, the concept of humans identity and how their communication with others have changed from a singular identity to a relational, multidimensional and accepted as more of evolving entity in response to the people in relationships and institution we an individual relate with(Steward, 2012, p.80). As Stewart (2012) stated that our identity is a continuously evolving and changing which is profoundly influenced, controlled and shaped by our relationships around us such as race, religions, gender, etc., both in the past and present relationships (p. 80& p.81). Even today many …show more content…
For example, I see that my identity has been changed so much. As a child, I used to think that I will be a medical doctor someday. It merely suggests that my identity was something attainable and something that would never be changing once achieved. In fact, our Identity is very complex to define, can be described as the trait constructed or transacted on everyday practices as we interact and communicates with others (Stewart, 2012). Since the birth, a child's interaction and communication with people in a relationship, identity is molded by surrounding culture, keeps changing and developing over time as an accountable self, acceptable by society, act as performative self, and this is a continuous process(Steward, 2012, p.88 &89). From birth till now, our identity has been continuously changing and developing from past relationships to present relationships.Also, there may be times in which our identity differences to that of a position or role that is either ascribed or