How Gender Can Greatly Change Your Identity
Identity Speech
3 mins (3m 10s recommended by teacher)
I define in my own words identity as the thing that determines your personality, your thinking style and how your react to certain scenarios. Your identity can change many things about yourself, but it can be changed itself. Your identity can be greatly changed by many things such as your experiences, gender, people you know, friends you have met, your location and religion, and finally your education. I will be talking about how gender can greatly change your identity.
In the time when the Taliban took over, your gender could greatly change your identity. Being a male gave you access to many privileges, but being a female could leave you dead or stuck in house with one room for the …show more content…
This would make them more wary/careful, because they had to go undetected right under the watchful eyes of the Taliban. There were many women and girls forced to “become” boys, as described in Parvana, “There were many girls like Parvana in Kabul.” One such example of a girl “just like Parvana” is her friend Shauzia, posing as a tea boy, who she meets again after Shauzia trips over Parvana’s blanket and drops the cups she was carrying.
This proves that although many things can shape your identity, people can always shape their own identity.
The Taliban also gave the males rules they had to follow. One such rule was that all men had to grow beards, as described in Parvana, “When the Taliban first came and ordered all men to grow beards, Parvana had a hard time getting used to her father’s face. He had never worn a beard before. Father had a hard time getting used to it, too. It itched a lot at first.” This was probably done because the Taliban wanted an all-Islamic country following all-Islamic rules.
Most people would not recognise men with a beard, so they may have thought all men look the same, making people not know how to identify the person who was their father from other men in a market. This could change their identity into someone who notices little details, so they can separate one person from
3 mins (3m 10s recommended by teacher)
I define in my own words identity as the thing that determines your personality, your thinking style and how your react to certain scenarios. Your identity can change many things about yourself, but it can be changed itself. Your identity can be greatly changed by many things such as your experiences, gender, people you know, friends you have met, your location and religion, and finally your education. I will be talking about how gender can greatly change your identity.
In the time when the Taliban took over, your gender could greatly change your identity. Being a male gave you access to many privileges, but being a female could leave you dead or stuck in house with one room for the …show more content…
This would make them more wary/careful, because they had to go undetected right under the watchful eyes of the Taliban. There were many women and girls forced to “become” boys, as described in Parvana, “There were many girls like Parvana in Kabul.” One such example of a girl “just like Parvana” is her friend Shauzia, posing as a tea boy, who she meets again after Shauzia trips over Parvana’s blanket and drops the cups she was carrying.
This proves that although many things can shape your identity, people can always shape their own identity.
The Taliban also gave the males rules they had to follow. One such rule was that all men had to grow beards, as described in Parvana, “When the Taliban first came and ordered all men to grow beards, Parvana had a hard time getting used to her father’s face. He had never worn a beard before. Father had a hard time getting used to it, too. It itched a lot at first.” This was probably done because the Taliban wanted an all-Islamic country following all-Islamic rules.
Most people would not recognise men with a beard, so they may have thought all men look the same, making people not know how to identify the person who was their father from other men in a market. This could change their identity into someone who notices little details, so they can separate one person from