Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Identity

1. Think about how an individual's identity is shaped. What factors have led to the formation of your own identity?

Basically I think that an individual's identity is shaped from one's background, how he conditions and adapts to the surroundings. The social environments, with the hobbies he take up, and maybe his genes. 

I think that my own identity is formed by my background, my social environment as I grow up, and maybe my genes. My identity can be classified as maybe rather quiet, and well English spoken. From young, I have been speaking English to everyone, including my relatives and mostly to my parents, hence English becomes of first tongue to me. Some other people are well Mandarin spoken or other dialects. I think my identity is that I speak good English and have a moderately good foundation of the English grasp. 

As I grew up, I was rather a quiet person, an introvert, less outgoing, less social. That was because my pre-school friends  all were shy and did not speak up nor converse with one another, causing everyone to be reserved and alone. In primary school, I met a new batch of friends and we did not converse, and hence the cycle repeats again till it is implemented in me. Hence, forming a more quieter, more self reserved Benedict.

And maybe my parents genes has got something to do with my soft-spoken and well English foundation characteristics. Probably either my father or my mother had a strong English foundation ; loves books and literature. ( The chances are my mother.)
And my father is a rather reserved man, less sociable. And coming to think about it, genes do play a role in carving the identity of the offspring. 

I think that my parents' genes and the environment I was put into had slowly, gradually carved a gentle, quiet me.
Abstract factors form identities and not simple and meaningless factors. 

2.Search for three images ( that are not a photograph of you) that you feel represent your identity .







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