I Judge Based On My Identity Essay

Have you ever been judge based on your identity? We all define our identity differently. Identity is the distinguishing character or personality of an individual. Your identity can affect how you are treated. These can be positive and negative effects based on someone’s opinion. This may also play a part on how others view you as an individual. Being a native of New Orleans plays a major role in my identity, because the way the media display the city. Despite the fact that there are positive and negative portrayals depicted, it still affects my status and first impressions from others. With my dad being in the army I have lived in several states. I moved to Maryland, when I was in the fourth grade. On the first day of school we introduce ourselves, …show more content…
Tremé gives us something we need to see: a vibrant portrait of the people and the culture that makes New Orleans special, and a living if fictional image of how those people are rebuilding their city (Groarke 265). Tremé is tended to be rooted in the real New Orleans. Even through the hard times they tend to keep the cities culture and heritage alive. Portraying carnival and second lines, the first episode opens with a second line parade, and ends with a jazz funeral (Groarke 265). The eight episode called “All on a Mardi Gras Day,” on season one, explains a little about Mardi Gras. It shows how after Hurricane Katrina it was hard preparing for Mardi Gras because so many of its faithful have not been able to return home. But they refuse to let Mardi Gras go down the drain. Everyone in New Orleans gears up for Fat Tuesday, the peak of the Mardi Gras celebrations in this episode. Despite they are all down, and still in shock from the storm they will not miss Mardi Gras. This is a time for them to put all of the grief from the storm behind, and have a great time. Celebrating Mardi Gras is important for continuity and tradition, for lifting people’s spirits, and to just giving them an excuse to get completely