Daquan Adams
Identity Crisis
. What are these factors that make up an identity? How
important is an identity is to someone? Identity is what we as people use to
identify ourselves as unique and different from other people. Identity is made
of many small factors that combine to make the overall person that people
identify you as. I am proud to have my own identity that no one can copy.
Whether it be my race and personality and the way I see people. I am me and
only I can be me, no one else can be the person that I am.
My race plays a big part of my identity to help shape me.
I am proud to be black and being part of a group of people that are rich with
soul and feeling. Like in hip hop planet it shows that we can evolve to match
the feeling of our people. “Imagine a burning man. He is on fire. He runs into
the room. You put out the flames. Then another burning man arrives. You put him
out and go about your business. Then two, three, four, five, ten appear. You
extinguish them all, send them to the hospital. Then imagine no one bothers to
examine why the men caught fire in the first place. That is the story of
hip-hop.”(James McBride, pg1) The way of expression that came out of nowhere
that should the many identities of people trying to express themselves. To show
the deep understand of the pain that many will never understand. I’m part of
history that helps shape my identity as a person and put me in a community of
people with a colorful history. The history of black people in America has and
always shape my identity.
Personality is a big part of what makes up an identity. Mainly
because your personality is what you act like and what you show so that people
can identify you. My personality is that I always want people to smile and
laugh when they are around me. All my friends call me a big teddy bear because
I never want to see them sad. That being my personality is how they see me, how
they identify as. My identity of how people see me is made up of my
personality. I have a personality that is all my own, making my identity unique
and special in many different ways.
People have many different identity’s that are used to
recognize them. Some use race others use upbringing and some use personality. I
see people that use all three to help make up themselves. My roommate uses his
heritage as a Peruvian to identify himself and he is proud of it. He wants
people to know where he comes from and is proud of what he is. That is his
identity and that is how I see him, a proud man of heritage. He also loves to
make people laugh which is his personality that also makes up who he is.
Identity is an important in life in many ways. It is what
makes us who we are, and what we are. My identity is the connection to my race
and the way I want people to see me. I love to make my friends laugh and make
them happy. That is how they see me as, my identity to them as the teddy bear.
Identity is unique and special to everyone. We all have multiple factors that
make up our identity as a whole. I’m proud that I am me and no one else can be
me.
Work
cited
James McBride, “Hip Hop
Planet”. National Geographic Magazine. April 2007, © 2015 National Geographic
Society. All rights reserved.
