My Identity Essay

This is my cultural identity. Trying to describe my cultural is harder than I thought. My cultural identities are sports, friends, and family. My family is from southern Illinois. I was born in Decatur. Cultural to me is my family and the way i was raised. My first cultural identity i’m going to talk about first is my friends. I have friends that go here at the E. I have friends that go to other schools. I have friends that don’t even live here in decatur. Some of my best friends go to the E…

My identity wheel is unique to me. It also illustrates how oppression and privilege relate to my identity wheel. I am a white heterosexual Christian male. This statement already can demonstrate privilege and oppression. Since I am a Christian I can be oppressed by not Christian people. Some believe that being white gives me privilege over others. Personally I think that it really shouldn’t matter what your skin color, religion or economic class is. However, sadly because we live in a non…

I don’t really like to talk much about myself or telling anyone my interests because I never pegged myself to be interesting or fascinating. But I do have a story about my life and what those interests are. These interests are what shaped me too be the person I am today. Im going to talk about my identity and what it means to me. But where do I start? Well there’s no easy answer, how about when I was 11 years old. It all started when I was in middle school I was starting in art 1 and our…

Racial/ethnic identity can be simple to say and complicated to understand at the same time. I know I obtain a solid foundation for my racial/ethnic identity, however that foundation grows stronger each day throughout life. I would describe myself as Black/African American without any hesitation. Our text Race and Racisms describes race as a "social construct, an idea we endow with meaning through daily interactions." This idea has definitely been instilled in me specifically by my mother at an…

Everyone has a unique identity and culture they align with. In particular, my cultural identity is that I am Korean American. I was born in America, but grew up in South Korea until I was six. The rest of my childhood was here in America but I would visit South Korea nearly every summer. So I identify as a Korean American. While growing up between two cultures, I struggled a lot because I would often be confused about how to behave and mainly about where I belong. Sometimes I agreed with more…

hold on to my roots. I know that there are certain aspects about myself that I can never change. My identity is the reason why I behave in certain ways, why I believe certain things, why I am who I am. The main aspect of my identity is that I am a female. It is not hard to tell, but it is hard to be. Society holds standards for women to be a certain weight, dress up, get their nails done once a week, and wear makeup. However, I’ve only done those things for special occasions, such as my dance…

describe myself in four words is very challenging, but in those four words involving my heritage, background, and ethnicity I would say Irish, rural, white, and talkative. However, everyone is unique coming from different backgrounds and having various ethnicities, everyone is peculiar in their own way. What makes up a person is who they are, it is their identity. I am now going to tell you a little about my own identity. I come from a mainly Irish heritage with a mix of some German, English,…

everyone has at least one favorite movie or more just to watch with your: friends, family, and etc. They can also range from just beautiful to excruciatingly bad. I’m going to tell what my favorite movie is and why does it reflect around my cultural identity. Sonic Ova, one of my favorite movies, reveals my cultural identity. In this movie, the main character Sonic, wants to stop Dr.Robotnik, but the new threat, Metal Sonic stands in his way to stop progressing? The director of this film is by…

represents my cultural identity. There are many variations of pancit in the Filipino cuisine. Both of my parents were born in the Philippines so I have been raised around the culture my entire life. For the most part, pancit is made of majority noodles. Just like how my culture is majority Filipino. Usually extra ingredients are added to pancit like sliced meat and chopped vegetables. Those extra ingredients are like the little things that make my cultural identity different. Although my…

Identity is the element of existence who or what an individual is. When someone asks me who am I? The response given is that I am a mother something I consider my primary identity. Yet this a recent occurrence within the last two years as my daughter is my only child. Before my primary identity was an inclination of nationalism. My introduction would be that I am Puerto Rican as well as Cuban-Chinese. As then I would I identify as Latina. Latina is defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “A…