Cultural identity

dreamed of being.” Agrado is both male and female, in the sense that she feels comfortable with her male sex organs, but strives towards this feminine ideal in other avenues of physical appearance. Agrado’s definition of authenticity relates to how her identity is represented through her body and what she choses to do with that body in spite the gender expectations entailed with her biological sex. She complicates the binary between male and female, and reveals that there is no real point of…

“Identity politics” has enabled groups who have been marginalized by society to ban together over certain shared experiences. By working collectively, these segments of the population are able to raise awareness and are instrumental in securing certain freedoms, already enjoyed by the rest of the population. While some may label these freedoms as “special rights,” in realty, that are simply the rights guaranteed by law. While there are numerous benefits to “identity politics” there are also…

Identity is defined as “the fact of being who or what a person or thing is” and is determined by the characteristics and traits of a person. A person's identity comes from a variety of places and people around them. Identity is not something that stays consistent and it is can easily transform throughout one’s lifetime. This ranges from their age to their passions, and beyond. Even though I am only fifteen years of age, my identity has changed drastically throughout my life. There are numerous…

Identity is not only something that represents a person, but also defines a person. It contains the past life experience of an individual and what this individual has had an effect on. It all forms together to create the make-up of the individual's identity. These stories, formed from our past, define who we are and who we will become. A major influence from the past can change everything, for example: if my father was still alive today, would I be the motivated individual that I am now? Or…

on their different experiences. We all share this fluidity in our personalities by the way we see ourselves and the way the world perceives us. This is called our identity. Our identity is everything that makes us different and what ties us together in groups, clubs or even countries. I see myself as a very dedicated person. This identity I have formed for myself has shaped the way I interact with classmates, friends, and family. It defines who I am today. Dedication has pushed me, kept me back,…

Sometimes, it can be difficult for a person to understand their own identity. Being in the state of mind of completely accepting who they are is by nature a difficult thing for a person to do. So, to assist people in their process of self-love, they can use inanimate things as outlets to express who they are. This could be an object that has significance to their life or a hobby that they are skilled in and passionate about. Authors often use this technique to define characters who may not be…

Following this further, Boeker (2017) demonstrates from John Locke’s notion of personal identity in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, suggesting that the theory of personal identity very much exists as being classified as a combination of what he’s coined as sameness and closeness. In this case, sameness and closeness represent in a similar fashion what the soul-continuity theory initially did, that the relationship between the two and their distinctions exist as a fusion resulting from…

Most people have a sense of who they are and their identity. This means they all have their own opinions and beliefs. Several people often debate the source of the personality of a person. Some believe a person’s identity comes from their ancestors’ origins and their own past. While these factors may play a small part in a person’s personality, most determine who they are by something other than their race and past. In Everything That Rises Must Converge, Flannery O’Connor uses her character…

As my community profile, I will be doing an ethnographic study of downtown Cincinnati. The agency that I am doing my internship is at Hamilton County Job and Family Services. The agency is based in the heart of Downtown Cincinnati. I thought this would be a good community to research demographics and compositions because, it’s the neighborhood that the agency workers are in the most. What is a community? A community is an area where a group people lives in the same place. This is could be a…

Self-identity is reflected through art, often times in understated ways. There is no right or wrong way to approach art because it is so very personal. It is the ability to express emotion, beauty, and thoughts in a single moment captured by time. As an artist, I am given the opportunity to explore different aspects of who I am, what I love, and what inspires me to be the person I am. An artist’s expression can take many forms, for me this form is music, a passion that has always been a part…