Can We Choose Their Identity

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Can we choose their identity and if yes how much do we choose? In my mind, it is both personal choice and influence from the family, friends, the media, and social structures.
The way one expresses themselves and the choices that are made can be summed up in identity. You can think that we are born with our identity, or we build it as we grow, one’s social, decisions, and judgment of our-self that what identity is.
One question that many people ask is do we born with our identity, or we can develop it so that we can choose our own identity. Identity is formed throughout one’s life. Our identities develop as we grow older and have more experiences. Part of our identity is taught to us by our parents. As we become older, we form our views and …show more content…

Is it easier to be given an identity than to find and assert your own? It is possible that “having grown up within a particular system of meanings and values, which may well be contradictory, we may find ourselves resisting alternatives.” (Weedon 1997, p32)
In today’s world, the choice of one’s identity is a multi-layered experience, consciously and unconsciously influenced by countless factors. Although we may like to think that ultimately we are our authority over the form our identity takes, the degree to which we can act on this authority is dependent on opportunity, awareness and taking responsibility for one's self. We also have to accept that we will always carry pieces of identity that have in some way been influenced by others.
Everyone has an identity. This identity is mostly influenced by outside forces, uncontrollable to the individual. Although each person has their character, beliefs, and opinions, we are shaped by the society and culture which surrounds us every day. Our sex, which is a culturally constructed idea, is the most obvious thing to develop our identity. Through our gender, culture dictates what actions would be suitable for us, what we should wear, how we should look, who we are to socialize with and what is agreeable or not. Society forms people into whereby they want their people to be. Density is socially constructed, and it is our individuality that we create on our terms and is what we need to embrace to ensure that we don’t fall into line with everyone

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