Labels and Comparisons: My Social Identity In order to explore our identities regarding class‚ race‚ gender‚ religion‚ and other aspects of human life‚ we must look at the ideas that make up social identity. Social identity consists of four elements: Categorization‚ or attaching labels to people; Identification‚ which refers to associating oneself to certain groups; Comparison‚ or viewing other groups differently from our own; and Psychological Distinctiveness - we each want to be different from
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Racial identity is a learned social category. Our agents of socialization‚ primarily our families‚ and peers‚ show us the expectations associated with our race. Sometimes this is explicit‚ and sometimes it is very subtle. How did you learn your racial identity? Which agents of socialization taught you about your race? Describe a time when your family or peers enforced lessons about racial identity with you. Perhaps it was a kind of food you were or were not supposed to eat or a way to dress or even
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our friends. My own culture is my southern background with our strange customs‚ unique military lifestyle‚ and my overall generation. My mother was born and raised in Louisiana‚ so I carry a lot of her traditions and ideas. My family and I celebrate Mardi Gras‚ a celebration of floats all around New Orleans for two whole weeks celebrating the three kings‚ which most people around the world do not celebrate except for in the South. Food is also a very big part of my cultural identity. We as a family
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Daniel Clark CHI4930.006 10/10/2011 Ancient food Traditions and Ethnic identity in the South of China A wide range of cultural factors are influential in the building of a people’s ethnic identity. Among the more publicized subjects related to ethnic identity in China‚ are political‚ religious‚ and economic topics. Still other subjects are related to issues of territorial independence or succession from China proper. Study in these areas has been relatively extensive and thorough due in part
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Philip Van Eick ENG 101 Section 3 Professor Sobel “My Hyphenated Identity” 9.25.2013 My Dutch-Indonesian Life I consider my hyphenated identity to be an important part of who I am‚ which is Dutch-Indonesian. This is a distinct group of people from the islands of Indonesia‚ situated across the equator. Although the Portuguese were the first Europeans to arrive in the area‚ the Dutch settled and stayed in Indonesia for roughly 300 years. The Dutch were there a long time and created a unique
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My way of defining culture is something that makes up your background or something that shapes you. The times of my life have been good and sometimes bad‚ so that’s how my cultural identity is made up. I have multiple things that makes up my cultural identity‚ but here’s a few I’ll tell you about. My cultural identity mainly revolves around Food‚Clothing & Music. Boy boy boy don’t I like getting new clothes and trying on new things well shopping is another thing that makes up the way I am I enjoy
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In life we constantly ask ourselves who we are‚ and use a multitude of words to describe us in order to form a sort of identity that we choose to play out. We are often given titles like family member‚ student or even citizen of the community to describe us an ultimately attribute to our identity as a persona. For those three common aspects of life such as family member‚ student‚ and even citizen of the community I give close attention as they are all very important. Whether I am being a caring family
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attending Vacation Bible School every summer only to have a Bat Mitzvah when you turn thirteen. These contrasting ways of life are my normal. My mom‚ born in 1957‚ was raised in a small town in northern Minnesota. My dad‚ on the other hand‚ was born in 1938 in what is now Israel. While my mom grew up as a devout Christian living a typical suburban life in the Midwest‚ my dad grew up speaking Hebrew‚ practicing Judaism‚ and hiding in bomb shelters during World War II. This might explain why it’s been
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Writing Assignment 1: My Musical Identity Music‚ in all its complexity can be seen as a living‚ breathing mechanism that has the ability to sink deep down into one’s soul and create feelings of awe‚ excitement and wonder. Music speaks to and connects people of all cultures‚ backgrounds and ideologies‚ creating a common bond between various members of the human species. When listening to a beautifully composed piece of music‚ I myself cannot help but feel connected to the instruments‚ the artists
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Personal identity is how a person feels about their self that forms over the course of their life. There are many factors influenced by culture that have made up my personal identity‚ such as‚ social class‚ ethnicity‚ religion‚ geographic location‚ and my educational experience. All of these have made an impact on my personality‚ values‚ motivation‚ and family influences. I will explain how being American‚ in the lower-middle social economical class‚ Caucasian‚ and living and receiving an education
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