In essence, I am the six blind men, and the world is my elephant. I am right, but I am wrong. My semiotics guide me through the world, and blind me to it. My culture, my family, and global cosmopolitanism. These 3 streams of semiotics heavily influence how I create my world.
A large part of my identity is my racial background. It plays a major role in who I am, and how I view everything surrounding me. My social circle is filled with people who are in minority groups. When I view news broadcastings mentioning black people in America being the receivers of police brutality, it causes me to feel a personal connection and a personal loss. I am black, and an American. People like Donald Trump being in control of a place I consider my second home, …show more content…
I don’t befriend just anyone, or allow myself to be surrounded by just anyone. Not to say that I am not welcoming of everyone I met, but very few of those people become important to me.
At first I don’t look particularly friendly. The reason being, I don’t want to tolerate people who bring drama into my life. For example, I had a close friend in middle school, when all of a sudden, she changed. Maybe it was wrong for me not to accept her changing, but at the same time I know what I want to be surrounded by, and the new her was not it. She became someone whose presence I no longer enjoyed. Her values had shifted, being popular and going to parties were her new normal. I don’t value those things, and as a result, we are no longer friends.
Maybe my high expectations are a flaw, but it allows me to rule out what I don’t want in my life. It pushes me to work hard and to push past my limits. In a way my parents persistent desire for me to succeed, has transformed into me wanting to reach my full potential.
The world is my empty canvas and my semiotics are the paint, but simply like any observer of art, the way I paint my message could be tremendously different to how someone else interprets
A large part of my identity is my racial background. It plays a major role in who I am, and how I view everything surrounding me. My social circle is filled with people who are in minority groups. When I view news broadcastings mentioning black people in America being the receivers of police brutality, it causes me to feel a personal connection and a personal loss. I am black, and an American. People like Donald Trump being in control of a place I consider my second home, …show more content…
I don’t befriend just anyone, or allow myself to be surrounded by just anyone. Not to say that I am not welcoming of everyone I met, but very few of those people become important to me.
At first I don’t look particularly friendly. The reason being, I don’t want to tolerate people who bring drama into my life. For example, I had a close friend in middle school, when all of a sudden, she changed. Maybe it was wrong for me not to accept her changing, but at the same time I know what I want to be surrounded by, and the new her was not it. She became someone whose presence I no longer enjoyed. Her values had shifted, being popular and going to parties were her new normal. I don’t value those things, and as a result, we are no longer friends.
Maybe my high expectations are a flaw, but it allows me to rule out what I don’t want in my life. It pushes me to work hard and to push past my limits. In a way my parents persistent desire for me to succeed, has transformed into me wanting to reach my full potential.
The world is my empty canvas and my semiotics are the paint, but simply like any observer of art, the way I paint my message could be tremendously different to how someone else interprets