Identity to Me

Stephanie Bruno

Engl 1100_3e

Professor Young 

Identity

My class came up to a consensus that identity is a unique representation  of characteristics such as language, culture, race, gender, religion and socio-economic class, and how they are seen by yourself and others...

As for my identity, I identify myself as an 18 year old caucasian American woman. My first and only language is English. I love the language I speak. Due to how I've grown up in America that is why I speak this language, but my roots are not from here. They are from Italy and Poland. My mother is polish and my father is Italian. I consider consider my culture where my roots are from. But I never forget all of the american traditions that I celebrete as well. To identify my self with a religion it would be roman catholic. My religion gives me hope and guidance. I still continue to go to church every Sunday. Socio-economiclly I would be considered lower class because the only income that I have coming in is from my part time job at the Hallmark Gold Crown store. Which is also a big part of how I identify myself. I love my job and all of my coworkers greatly. The store itself is my second home and the workers are my second on family. I am also supported by my parents. They would consider themselves to be middle-class. 

All of this makes up what my identity is to me. Identity is an observation of the way you are  seen. But truly, I feel it's more then that. From the story How to Tame a Will Tongue by Gloria Anzaldua, she quotes Kaufman saying, "Identity is the essential core of who we are as individuals, the conscious experience of the self inside." I believe that some of who you are on the inside is- what matters to you, what your intended career is, what you do in your spare time, what you're passionate about, and the people you surround yourself with. Its all part of how you see and identify yourself. The way someone else may identify me could very well be completely different then how I do. And that's okay.