The reading assigned is centered around the discussion of social identities given to the reader by Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey. In this article the discussion of social identities are geared toward the identities we give ourselves and the identities society gives us. Kirk and Okazawa-Rey give plenty examples of how the social groups we tend to place ourselves might not be the same group society places us in. One example used was immigration in the United States. In many places all over the world most people identify with where they are from as their main “identity.” In the example given Kirk and Okazawa-Rey described to people, one from Guatemala and one from Cambodia. Either would identify as Guatemalan or Cambodian but when they come
