Personal Narrative: My Personal Identity

Joseph Campbell stated, “You have a growing ego consciousness with which you identify yourself, and this is developing in relation to the costumes you have to put on, the personae” (72). Who am I as an individual? There are so many aspects of what has influenced me as a person, and a woman of color. The process of my enculturation began at birth .I was born in 1990.The year is important because, in the early 90’s many people were still very biased about biracial and multiracial children. My ethnic background is Asian, and black-Hispanic. I was also adopted by Caucasian parents, and had an East Indian brother. It was 1997 during a hot Nevada summer is when I came to the realization as to what significant impact persona really has. I first learned the word "mixed" when I was enrolled in elementary school. I was an eight year old girl with ambiguous facial features, caramel tone skin, and a head full of dark wavy/curly hair. I spoke perfect English, but knew some Spanish, French, and Chinese. The neighborhood I grew up in and the elementary school I went to was predominately white upper middle class. Social class wasn’t an issue for me. Nonetheless, my ethnicity and family dynamics were different than my peers. At school, I was soon struggling to fit in.

Jung stated, “The construction of a collectively suitable persona means a formidable …show more content…
The air would fill with the aroma of the sweet scent of desert sage and rain. It was during this time my parents would have heart to heart conversations with me. My parents were always loving, concerned, not quick to over-react, patient, and strong enough to let me learn by my mistakes. They taught me that our family values are to have no prejudices. Those values have always stayed with me. I strongly believe not to have a preconceived preference of society or any