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    I reflected back on my life, there were two distinctive aspects in which I believe have been the most influential elements to my personal growth. My identity as an Asian-American raised in an immigrant family and my faith as a Christian have empowered me to become the person that I am today. Sociological Perspective on Self-Identity Self-identity was

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    The ‘looking glass self” state by Antonio is a social psychology ideology that suggests that people's self-image develops out of their interactions with others and what other people perceive about them. This concept, introduced by Charles Horton Cooley in 1902, suggests the development of one’s self and identity via interactions with others in the context of a society. Cooley underlined that the society comprise of a network of inter-working mental perceptions about one another. According to Lisa

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    Cultural Identity Self-Reflection One of the greatest advantages of the United States is its multicultural experience and aim towards reaching the “E Pluribus Unum” establishment. Before I arrived in the United States, I understood the concept of plurality, but I never experienced living in it. Everyone I know in my Mestizo community of Guayaquil, Ecuador shared the same language, customs, traditions, religions, values, and anti-values. Even though Ecuador is a multicultural nation, the separation

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    Soto-Morera 1 Self-Identity As I walked down the hallway to my first class, I could feel myself getting butterflies in my stomach. In the back of my head, I did not know what to expect for my sixth grade year at Seven Springs Middle School because I have not seen or talked to these people that I was close with for more than a year. Moving back from being in Tampa, Florida for one year and a half made me get into different environments and meet culturally diverse people. Coming back to Trinity again

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    informal education that I have experienced in my life has brought me to find my self-identity. I recognized that I have a pattern of identification which comes from the way I speak, my actions, what I hear, and how I perceive the information has developed me into a very caring but serious person. As they say that one personal identity develops more than two, but not a lot of times in ones life time. My identity

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    The ownership of something can range from material possessions to your skills and self identity. The relationship between ownership and development of sense of self has had creative thinkers wondering for centuries, “What does is mean to own something?” From personal thought, I believe that ownership is within yourself. It declares a sense of achievement. What we take ownership of shows everyone our characteristics. For example, buying a new car on your own for the first time, the feeling after you

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    Labeling theory holds that individuals come to identify and act as per their labels. The major tenet of this theory is that the behavior and self-identity of individuals is affected by the way they are described by other people (Vold, Bernard, Snipes, & Gerould, 2016). According to this theory, the act of deviance is not implicit in a particular act, but is hedged on the inclination of the majority to ascribe labels to minorities in society who deviate from standard behavior. Labeling leads to dramatization

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    CHAPTER-IV QUEST FOR SELF AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN BHARATI MUKHERJEE’S JASMINE AND WIFE The Indian born writer Bharati Mukherjee is one of the most widely known immigrant writers of America. The immigrant writers in America can be divided into two categories. Firstly the ‘willing immigrant’ writers who settled in America from Europe and Asia and who have made it their home. The second category consists of the ‘unwilling immigrant writers’ with African origin whose forefathers were brought to America

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    Self-identity is a self explanatory word, It’s basically one who identifies themselves. Langston Hughes uses his own experiences as evidence as to how society tries to influence the minds of others. Hughes self-identifies as a black person, “I am the only colored student in my class.” He emphasizes how his ethnicity separates him from his white classmates. He also hints about how his life was harder just because he was a black student; saying that his professor is more free because he is “older--

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    differentiate myself because I am more than just an American and I am more than just black. Nowadays black identity is used not only as a race but as ethnicity, including for people who do not know their heritage. On the other hand, freedom for people in the black race is much more than it was in the 20th century. Although, the black race have civil rights, racial issues still continue to exist today. Black identity is not only the color of your skin but how you identify yourself whether it is by cultural experiences

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