How Places Shape People's Identity

Identity is a unique thing that everyone has to own and it can be described through places or cultures or other things that affect our life. From the past until now, humans search for their identity. The universe consists of different places with various landscapes which reflect people’s identity through location or culture and time. Landscapes are the meaning of people’s lives which give symbols for people’s culture, traditions, and valuable things. When people go to different places, they find how places can shape people’s identity that’s why the writer said: “To identify and understand the life of a group it is necessary to identify its world of objects . . . in terms of the meanings objects have for the members of the group”. It’s really important to find out the location and the culture that reflect people in different places. Also, stereotyping affects people’s identity greatly by generalizing some knowledge about some nations without any accuracy. Besides stereotyping, sexism is a good factor in describing people’s identity by showing how
Sarah was an intelligent girl that loved science and nature like her father, but the society was against her because it distinguished between men and women. (“Rare Birds”, p.60)At this time, people thought that men are more powerful than women. When her brother “Christopher” and his friends spoke about science, Sarah had her own opinion about that, but her brother thought that it was improper to let women enter a conversation with men with different perspective that opposed his friend’s opinion (“Rare Birds”, p.63). Also, this society shaped women’s identity through their age and if they married or not as the writer said “she turned twenty-nine. Old, old, old” (“Rare Birds”, p.61). That’s why Sarah hoped to be like swallows to immigrate from this society and travel to a place where equality between men and women took place. (“Rare Birds”,