Humans identify themselves in different ways; whether it be a physical characteristic or how they are viewed in the social ladder. Everyone has a unique identity that either changes over time or sticks with the individual for the rest of his or her life. An identity is a raw description of what a person is without any makeup or secrets to hide behind.
Being physically handicapped is an identity that people allow to define them or prove to everyone that they can conquer. In the essay “You’re Short, Besides!” the author Sucheng Chan does everything possible to make sure her visible handicap does not define her. When Chan was in elementary school she participated in a music recital. As she was walking up on stage she fell, and someone in the …show more content…
When individuals think of an Asian-American they usually conjure up an image of how all Asians excel in mathematics, science and computers. In the essay “Thinking About Diversity” by Frank H. Wu, his students at the University of Michigan think he is “gifted with mathematical, scientific, or computer-programming talents solely on account of [his] race. Some even have said to [him] only half jokingly, ‘I thought all Asians were supposed to be good with computers’” (pg.147). People who assume Asian Americans are only talented in those three subjects have created an identity for them.
Asian Americans identities are seen through the eyes of college students who only see them as people who “study too much and try too hard to gain academic success” (Wu, pg.147). Asian Americans have difficulty escaping from the identity which portrays them as a “whiz kid”. Their culture has taught them to strive to be seen as someone who is skilled in the fields of math, science and computers. They aren’t taught to stray from this path and create an identity of their …show more content…
Auden. The description of this man is a list of statistical data that someone from the Bureau of Statistics created when the man died. There isn’t much that can be inferred about his identity from the data besides trivial things such as he only went to jail once, never got fired from his job at the factory, and he never had a complaint made about him. People knew he was a father and husband, but there is no way of telling if he was a father who was kind and loving or drunk and abusive. This man’s identity is made up of statistical data that describes him as a saint, but nobody will know if this is true or not because his true identity was buried along with
Being physically handicapped is an identity that people allow to define them or prove to everyone that they can conquer. In the essay “You’re Short, Besides!” the author Sucheng Chan does everything possible to make sure her visible handicap does not define her. When Chan was in elementary school she participated in a music recital. As she was walking up on stage she fell, and someone in the …show more content…
When individuals think of an Asian-American they usually conjure up an image of how all Asians excel in mathematics, science and computers. In the essay “Thinking About Diversity” by Frank H. Wu, his students at the University of Michigan think he is “gifted with mathematical, scientific, or computer-programming talents solely on account of [his] race. Some even have said to [him] only half jokingly, ‘I thought all Asians were supposed to be good with computers’” (pg.147). People who assume Asian Americans are only talented in those three subjects have created an identity for them.
Asian Americans identities are seen through the eyes of college students who only see them as people who “study too much and try too hard to gain academic success” (Wu, pg.147). Asian Americans have difficulty escaping from the identity which portrays them as a “whiz kid”. Their culture has taught them to strive to be seen as someone who is skilled in the fields of math, science and computers. They aren’t taught to stray from this path and create an identity of their …show more content…
Auden. The description of this man is a list of statistical data that someone from the Bureau of Statistics created when the man died. There isn’t much that can be inferred about his identity from the data besides trivial things such as he only went to jail once, never got fired from his job at the factory, and he never had a complaint made about him. People knew he was a father and husband, but there is no way of telling if he was a father who was kind and loving or drunk and abusive. This man’s identity is made up of statistical data that describes him as a saint, but nobody will know if this is true or not because his true identity was buried along with