After completing the Culture Self Reflection exercise through bringing awareness to the social identity categories I coincide with, I found that my overall social identity does not fit with simply one category. For the social identity categories of Race, Sex, and Religion, I fall under the Targeted Social Group by being a biological Asian woman and a Muslim. For the social identity categories of Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Ability/Disability, I fall under the Privileged Social Group by associating myself as a Gender Conforming Biological Woman, a heterosexual, and as a Temporarily Abled/Bodied person. Lastly, I also fall under the Border Social Group by considering myself as Middle class, and a Young Adult.
Noticing that I do not fall under simply one umbrella of social group, I found myself feeling content that I do not belong to just one group of people in society. By having my social identity being diverse through the varying social …show more content…
However, these differences are unimportant when it comes to understanding a person’s values and thoughts, which are more important than the Race or social class they are associated with. As stated by Maurer and Smith in chapter ten of Community/Public Health Nursing Practice: Health for Families and Populations, “...the minute differences among gene types are as much the result of differences among members of the same race (white versus white) as of differences between races (white versus black),” (271). The genetic differences are minuscule when looking at a person as a whole, and through completing this exercise, I am more aware that social categories can be used to become self-aware of how one may fit in the world, but social groups should not determine how one perceives someone different than
Noticing that I do not fall under simply one umbrella of social group, I found myself feeling content that I do not belong to just one group of people in society. By having my social identity being diverse through the varying social …show more content…
However, these differences are unimportant when it comes to understanding a person’s values and thoughts, which are more important than the Race or social class they are associated with. As stated by Maurer and Smith in chapter ten of Community/Public Health Nursing Practice: Health for Families and Populations, “...the minute differences among gene types are as much the result of differences among members of the same race (white versus white) as of differences between races (white versus black),” (271). The genetic differences are minuscule when looking at a person as a whole, and through completing this exercise, I am more aware that social categories can be used to become self-aware of how one may fit in the world, but social groups should not determine how one perceives someone different than