Everyone likes to think they are this unique person and no one has or will ever be like them. That is very much not the case. Like 50% of this world, I am male, and like a good amount of the population, I am white. I am 21 years of age in the United States and I am 22 years of age in Korea because of cultural differences. However, I identify myself as a much older person than I really am. I personally think of myself as a 30 year old trapped in a younger person’s body because I was forced to grow up at a very young age. There has been no beating around the bush in this lifetime, just work and effort to get where I want to get. This has been easy for me because I am an atheist and religion has not been distracting. Where religion has helped many people and continues to help them every day, religion was not an option for me.
The identity that I most importantly identify with is the fact that I am a white male. The …show more content…
To what it will change to, that is still a mystery. I could only imagine that with how society is changing, I am sure that I will change with it. There are so many changes going on with the new use of the internet, that ideologies and topics that are acceptable are changing countries in just a couple years. These major changes are almost forced upon one’s beliefs which then changes perspective which then leads to different ideas which then leads to different identities and finally a chance to alter a dominant identity.
College has absolutely influenced where I am now in my identity as a human being. I know I focused a lot of this paper on the fact that being white is my main identity, but it is one of the least important identity. It is just one that is easily relatable for a paper of this topic because I have only recently became self-aware of how me being white impacts the other cultures. I was just never aware of how much a problem it
The identity that I most importantly identify with is the fact that I am a white male. The …show more content…
To what it will change to, that is still a mystery. I could only imagine that with how society is changing, I am sure that I will change with it. There are so many changes going on with the new use of the internet, that ideologies and topics that are acceptable are changing countries in just a couple years. These major changes are almost forced upon one’s beliefs which then changes perspective which then leads to different ideas which then leads to different identities and finally a chance to alter a dominant identity.
College has absolutely influenced where I am now in my identity as a human being. I know I focused a lot of this paper on the fact that being white is my main identity, but it is one of the least important identity. It is just one that is easily relatable for a paper of this topic because I have only recently became self-aware of how me being white impacts the other cultures. I was just never aware of how much a problem it