Identity

Throughout time a person’s individual identity is a term used to describe a person’s conception, uniqueness, and expression of their individuality or group relationships. One’s mind is reflected to contain of an unimportant element, separate from and independent from the body.  Moreover it is defined as the individual characteristic belonging to any individual or shared by a group or members. However, one’s identity occurs through ones identifications with others, primarily identity comes from parents/family, friends, education, environment, role models, gender, nationality and cultural identity. Throughout life we pass many stages and there are influences that influence all our identities together, more in a larger social community, for examples, the government, celebrities, artists, musicians, and most well-known to make an individual paranoid about their identity, is the media, i.e. magazines, television, internet, newspapers. The media or other things, can affect a person’s mental model of her/himself, self-esteem, self-image and individuality.

 ‘A person’s identity is defined as the totality of one’s self-construal, in which how one construes oneself in the present expresses the continuity between how one construes oneself as one was in the past and how one construes oneself as one aspires to be in the future’, Weinreich, 1986a.

‘In an essay concerning human understanding (1689) has been said to be one of the first modern conceptualizations of consciousness as the repeated self-identification of oneself’, On Identity and diversity (book 2 chapter 27)

Some individuals play a role (be like someone else), because they are not comfortable about themselves or think and care too much about how people see them. For example young people and violence, most young individuals like to be like what they play on Xbox or PlayStation, such as grand theft auto, it involves a lot of violence, money, women and more, so the young individuals think they can earn respect from their friends by doing those things, which is wrong.

‘All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely player: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts’, (Shakespeare) .




references:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/identity-theft

http://uk.ask.com/web?l=sem&ifr=1&qsrc=999&q=what%20is%20identity&siteid=41627709&o=41627709&ar_uid=B18E14F3-2EBE-4B04-ADD5-78CD31E7CDAD&click_id=752969D8-89D4-4597-B2EE-012F47DB869A