What Makes Up Our Identity?

What defines us constitutes our identity. It may be religion, nationalism, nationality, livelihood or gender / family; we all have the qualities to identify us. Amy Tan uses race, sex / family, religion to explain the perception of identity. Mary Matsuda Gruenewald also uses her race, gender / family, and religion to express her emotions about identity. Lila Abu - Lughod considers that identity is not natural, permanent, or fixed.

Identity identity is a problem that we must always solve in our lives. Labels are signs that constitute our identity, people classify boxes and make words that we believe are obligatory to put. Language is a word that evokes my thoughts and feelings of my heart. Labels and identities are specific to each individual. It is by no means a bad thing, we have to open our eyes to understand. In this semester course, I learned about myself. Each class can not stop mentally marking oneself. For example I said that I am quiet because I have not talked much. I can not help it, but I put myself in a box and compare it with other people. Right now, I remember, I do not need a label. This is a safe place to learn about our identity. Somehow, we were put together in class. Various people have various ideas and opinions. Change the color of the rainbow. I made a rainbow in the classroom

As a follow-up or another approach, students need to create internal / external identity diagrams to explore the factors that make up our personal identity. Distribute copies of the Graphic Organizer and ask students to include words and phrases used to describe themselves and attributes and tags used by other users to define them. Q: What is the difference between how you look at yourself and how others see you? Discuss why these differences exist and how they affect our interactions. Or you can ask the students to read an excerpt from Sandra Cisneros' book 'The House on Mango Street'. Q: What does this story mean to you? How is it related to Esperanza's experience? According to Esperanza, how is the relationship between identity and perception? As an extension or problem in the classroom, let students write their own story of "do not do"