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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Who Are We?

“What makes us who we are?”

 
Catherine G. Latterell questions her readers their own identity to think about our beliefs, values, and life goals.

The first assumption she states is that Identity is what we are born with. From birth we are told what we are from a birth certificate from the race that we are, our parents, our sex and date of birth and as we grow into our toddler years that is when we start to learn about our own gender identity.  

We view on how we are treated for example, when we were younger the girls wore dresses and the boys wore pants. In fact when we were younger that is just the starting point of understanding the sense of identity. Social and cultural forces shape our sense of identity, including gender and race which makes us the question, “Is race really something we can choose, or it’s it chosen for us?”

The second assumption Catherine addresses is identity is shaped by culture. Culture marks identity. Identity is shaped through acculturation, a process by which we absorb the practices, attitudes, and beliefs of particular social groups, for example, the clothing that we wear to the types of different music one listen to. Doing these things to make our identity we tend to gravitate to others who share the same interests and values.

The third and last assumption Catherine mentions, identity is shaped by personal choice. Personal decisions can be crucial to ones sense of identity, and that personal choices can outweigh the importance of cultural influences and the experiences of others.