Reflective Essay: Loss Of Identity

The crowd was roaring and jubilantly jumping from the intersection that just transpired against the TCU. Everyone was astronomically ecstatic as students waved their white towels and cheered on our team. The smell of donuts and popcorn filled the air as the game heated up. Waves of yellow and dark red filled the stadium agnate as nation. Thousands of people cheered on the gophers as we went up against second best college football team TCU. The crowd commenced to lose hope as the gap widen to 3 to 23 during the third quarter. People commenced to get tired, my friends and I sat for remotely to repose. Suddenly, my friends and I auricular discerned “Hey! Stand up. This is a game not mosque” yelled exasperated boy two benches abaft us. At first we didn’t cerebrate much of it but he kept yelling. As my friends and I looked around us, we understood the guy was pointing at us. I was surprised as the rest of my friends. I …show more content…
Identity is the way someone see themselves as well as how other people sees them. I see myself as Muslim student who come from Kenya. I know its well fact that when people look at me they see a Muslim. As Woodward a person can distinguished by the way they dress. Since the way you dress comes with stigma of where you come from and who you are. The student who said those words assumed who my friends and I didn’t enjoy the game because of the way we were dressed. He made assumption based on our out exterior, which I don’t blame him. The reason I don’t blame him is because the way the media portrays Muslim women is they are powerless, have no rights and are not allowed to have fun. so my friends and I sitting might have depicted that we were not here for the fun of the game and might have upset him in way. Even though he might felt that way, he shouldn’t have made judgment because that is unfair to my friends and