My Identity Essay

As I reflect on my life, I can see numerous situations in which I personally struggled with being female. I never seemed to feel like I was good at being a girl. I also remember feeling sad and/or angry about those feelings. I can now see many reasons behind all of those feelings that I had. My struggle with my gender identity has been apparent in every aspect of my life. It effected the type of person I was/am, the decisions I made, and it impacted every single relationship I have ever had. The…

the question “Who are you?” I usually respond back by telling them my name and that I am pursuing mechanical engineering major at SJSU. But my name and my major are not my only and complete identity. There is more to every person you see around yourself. I would start revealing my identity by revealing my full name. As all the people at SJSU know me as “KD”, I would like them to know that my full name is Karandeep Singh Binner. My mother had decided that if she has a boy, his name would be…

it extremely vital where a child lives and more importantly, how they're raised. However, does that quote really impart my identity? Did really change me as a person? The environment I grew up in refined me in a way that was special. I am a first generation student. My mom and dad Immigrated to America, they constantly tell me about their hardships and labour, day after day. My parents came to America for a better education, to be free of war and have the ability to do whatever job…

reading from the book and listening to what we talked about in class relating to the concept of one’s identity, I realized that I have not actually deeply thought about my identity. However, now I am able to take the time and realize that even though I have not thought deeply about it my entire life has influenced my identity. Ever since I can remember, one of the most important things in my life has been my family and friends. I have been very lucky because I grew up in a family where I could…

Identity refers to who you are and the specific characteristics that set you apart from everyone else. The attributes that define our identity are composed of individual and social categories that can either make you different or similar to another person or group. This has particularly impacted the way I communicate with others, and how I am received when interactions take place. Communication has created and shaped me as a person and ultimately my identity as an individual in society. I will…

My background is central to my identity, because who I was then and the memories I have now, with the things that happened to me throughout my life, have changed me into who I am today. Yet, in the past few years, I have changed drastically and still am growing into the person I want to be. The three main sections, and or concepts, that make me who I am today, are who I was, who I am and who I will be. Beginning with, who I was, I was never a child that wanted to be out in a crowd with others,…

having moved to a place where cultural identity and affiliation with one’s culture is overt and expressed in conversation daily, I have become accustomed to daily self-reflection. Living here has opened my eyes to who I am and where I come from in a greater sense than anywhere else I have lived. Hence, I am reminded daily, that my culture is different from those in my community and in my family, yet I am embraced by and embrace the people I meet. My cultural identity stems from privilege,…

Everyone has their own personal identities some may be private and others are made public. People can share the same personal identity but have it be different since it is their own, such as two friends are each considered daughters but they are not the same daughter. Everyone has many different factors that make up their identity some of my public identity traits are female, daughter, friend, student, American, and a CNA. Many different traits make up who I am today that is why they are…

group of people, has an identity, name and a culture. In our modern culture identity is defined in two ways: who we really think we are and what other believe we are, identity is shaped through the many interactions we have throughout our lifetime. Personally I have always been on the quest to find my own identity but when my family decided to move from Mexico to the United States of America when I was just 14 years old, my family and specially me suffered major identity crisis. A whole…

and intractable epilepsy on my 19th birthday, I continued living as I had done previously for over one year. As my condition was persistently deteriorating, many aspects of my life were changed and I became subdued to the many barriers against continuing a normal life. I had to seize full-time work, which significantly altered my sociological identity. It was at this point that I succumb to identifying as disabled, began to truly accept my new sociological identities, and realise the many…