Reflective Essay On Identity

Every humans have different identity, such as gender, class, race, sexuality, religion and nationality. Each of these things gives us a form of uniqueness.identify can result in personal experiences which requires acknowledged of ones connection to help figure out corruption, policies, and communities that are traumatized as a target of social injustice. Identity helps us recognize the structural realities of inequality, identity can support us in aiming towards change. Growing up I was always thought that the lighter skin was better. I was given bleaching cream as a moisturizer without knowing the results of it. Skin bleaching and lightening is a enormous problem in the continent of Africa. It recount to self hate, and identity crisis. We were taught to hate ourselves for many centuries and it is still going …show more content…
I started learn about the history of my ancestors and slavery when I was in high school. When I started becoming conscious I asked many questions like why Africans have so much self hate towards their darkskin color? Was it because they were only taught that the light skin is better? Or can it be the results of not knowing their history and identity? Many of us go to school mastering European history, without having any idea who you are and where you came from. In Africa the educational and my environment shaped my identity in a unhealthy form. It effected me, because growing up I did not know now who i am. I developed a very low self esteem, I wanted to be lighter and prettier. In most magazines growing up, in Africa it was very rare to see a Darskin women on the covers. It causes many of us to have identity issues, women would bleach their skin afraid that their husband might leave them for a lighter skin women. These all goes back to the identity issues. If these women were taught in their institutions or educational system their history and educate on how to self