I’m a young adult who is learning everyday and wanting to express myself and feel even more apart of the people however nevertheless at the end of the day I identify myself as male. I am a small piece that’s apart of this earth. I am a diverse individual who works over beyond his means and aims to put myself out there wanting success as a Hispanic man. I was brought up as a child seeing my mother wanting to please, and make everyone comfortable, she is a peacemaker. A woman who will gait through the blaze for me, a woman who shows outpouring amount of love even when I don’t deserve it at times. She has taught me about life experiences, and what to expect, and nevertheless she has never been wrong or let me down. She has taught me to be strong,
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If I am all of these identities and had no one to share with, would my identity have any worth? As being human or in my case a man, you need something real for any of it to matter, and you need something that is forever. I think being able to look at yourself in the mirror and say you like yourself based off of whom you identify as, then you wouldn’t be you, your painful experiences in life even the good ones change you. At the end of the day we all want happiness, and we want to be the best. As a person you have to take the good with the bad; sometimes you have to take insecurities of your identity to get to that secure …show more content…
However what about other Hispanic men who get their education and want to become CEO’s, teacher , or doctors? Why are we not as qualified because of where our ancestor’s come from or because of the language we speak? I will always have a vivid memory of being at my employment on the hour and a white man called for me using the term “Julio” indicating because I am Hispanic, I would respond, and have a common Hispanic name. I denied his request for help, and took the mans way of approach on getting my attention as racial profiling, and I took it highly offensive. I try to be a people pleaser like my mother; however occasionally especially in situations like these I am not petrified of conflict. I think conflict can be respectable, and not always seen as a ruthless thing. I believe it shows you’re not afraid to be intolerant and go to a those places in your body or soul and let it go, it comes across as not being afraid of the unknown, but standing up for what’s true, “Race and ethnicity are among the influences that can shape identity,” and not for one second and I embarrassed to say I am Hispanic man.
“... Yet while racial and ethnic identities can certainly be the basis of prejudice, discrimination, and inequality, they can also – and sometimes simultaneously – be the source of pride, meaning, motivation and belongingness,” (Ferguson
If I am all of these identities and had no one to share with, would my identity have any worth? As being human or in my case a man, you need something real for any of it to matter, and you need something that is forever. I think being able to look at yourself in the mirror and say you like yourself based off of whom you identify as, then you wouldn’t be you, your painful experiences in life even the good ones change you. At the end of the day we all want happiness, and we want to be the best. As a person you have to take the good with the bad; sometimes you have to take insecurities of your identity to get to that secure …show more content…
However what about other Hispanic men who get their education and want to become CEO’s, teacher , or doctors? Why are we not as qualified because of where our ancestor’s come from or because of the language we speak? I will always have a vivid memory of being at my employment on the hour and a white man called for me using the term “Julio” indicating because I am Hispanic, I would respond, and have a common Hispanic name. I denied his request for help, and took the mans way of approach on getting my attention as racial profiling, and I took it highly offensive. I try to be a people pleaser like my mother; however occasionally especially in situations like these I am not petrified of conflict. I think conflict can be respectable, and not always seen as a ruthless thing. I believe it shows you’re not afraid to be intolerant and go to a those places in your body or soul and let it go, it comes across as not being afraid of the unknown, but standing up for what’s true, “Race and ethnicity are among the influences that can shape identity,” and not for one second and I embarrassed to say I am Hispanic man.
“... Yet while racial and ethnic identities can certainly be the basis of prejudice, discrimination, and inequality, they can also – and sometimes simultaneously – be the source of pride, meaning, motivation and belongingness,” (Ferguson