Three Levels Of Personal Identity

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According to our text, Hall states that each one of us has three different levels of identity and these three levels are personal, relational, and communal. The first one is personal identity, which means our own perception of ourselves as an individual and different from all other people. The second one is relational identity. It is based on particular relationships we have with others. The last one is communal identities tend to be seen as even broader in nature and are more resilient. They are typically associated with large scaled communities such as nationality, ethnicity, gender, or religious or political affiliation (Hall, 2005, p.109). For personal identity, I see myself as a cheerful and sensitive person. If something bad happens in …show more content…

I care too much about what other people say about my friends and also that other people’s comments can upset me easily. I think if you see yourself as a sensitive person then you won’t have a lot of friends. I remember my mother told me, if you care too much about other people’s comment, you probably would have a really hard life. So I tried to not listen what other people say about my life, the only thing I need to do is to be myself. For relational identities, I see myself as a student, a sister. In school, I am a student who needs to spend their time on study and get good grades. Back into China these days, the only thing a student should do is to study. All the parents think that students shouldn’t have a job while they are still in school because parents think that students should only focus on study in order to get good …show more content…

Avowal means the title we give to ourselves, Hall says when we try to fit ourselves into our idea of what is allowed and expected of the identities we envision for ourselves (Hall, 2005, p.118). Ascription is the process of having an identity assigned to us by other people (Hall, 2005, p.120). I had an experience with my professor, when I was studying at UWB last year. My English professor assumes me as a cheater because my identity is Chinese. One day in English class, we are taking an in class test. He separated all the Chinese students into different places in the room, even though he has two different versions of the test. All the Chinese students have the same embarrassed look on the face including me. Personally, I felt uncomfortable by how he separated all the Chinese students. As I mentioned earlier I am a very sensitive person, so at that time I am very worried about how others will think of us. After taking the test, I asked my friend to come with me and ask the professor why is he doing that to us. I told the professor how I feel when he separated us and how we feel uncomfortable about this. He said all the professors had a meeting together to discuss about how to stop international students cheating on the exams and some professors had reported about most of them is Chinese students and they use cell phones to cheat. When I

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