Personal Narrative: My Social Identity

My Social Identity
Social identity can be explained by social identity theory, and according to, Marsiglia, & Kulis, (2015) “social identity theory provides insights into how and why people choose to be part of one or another group and what being a part of that group means to them" (p. 103). In this aspect I will attempt to explain the three social identities that defines who I am today. First, I identify my gender as a man and how my male gender role was defined by the upbringing by my parent’s and society. Furthermore, how I was supposed to act and behave within the community by being a male from my family. Secondly, I identify as a husband, and how I perceived marriage and what I believed what and how a husband is. Lastly, I will attempt
Once in Operation Desert Storm, (Saudi Arabia) once Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan), and twice in Operation Iraqi Freedom (Iraq). And during my last 3 months of service in my transition phase back to civilian sector, I was subjected to countless hours of briefings on the education of veteran benefits to prepare me to become a veteran, ranging from healthcare, education benefits, and job opportunities. Information from pamphlets and forms including classes and veteran personal account was very helpful to my understanding of my new identity role in society. When people find out that I served in the military, the most common phrase I hear is, thank you for your service. Where I reply thank you. I believe that the people are stereotyping me in a positive way. Because, according to, Marsiglia, & Kulis, (2015) “Stereotypes are beliefs that individuals hold about a members of a group based on generalization about the characteristics of all members of that group” (p.
My grandmother’s biases was brought forth from the occupation of Guam by the Japanese and the liberation of Guam by the US forces in 1945during world war II and at that time her sense of normalcy was flip into chaos. My grandmother had experienced some major biases of white and foreign people from her experiences of the war and had passed those biases down to me and my siblings and cousins, throughout my upbringing the prejudices of both Japanese and white people was very exaggerated by my grandmother and when I joined the army and left my home in Guam in 1985 and was further assimilated in the American Culture I had lost those biases, moreover when I took a Caucasian woman as a bride to shatter the my grandmothers beliefs and being fully immersed in the American culture I come to believe the falsehood of my teachings of my grandmother and I have fully assimilated in the American culture by living in the united stated for over 30 years, giving up my cultural beliefs and norms I am assimilated to the US culture according to Marsiglia, & Kulis, (2015) “ assimilation is the process of letting go of one’s own culture of origin while