In my American Studies class, we started a new theme, Mythology and Identity. When the word identity was mentioned, it got me thinking. What does identity mean to me and my life? I have no idea what I want to do when I am older, where I will attend college, what my job will be, if I will have a family, or where I am going to live. The word identity is an interesting word to me, does it physically mean what we do and who we make our selves to be, or is it what we were made into. Can your identity change over time, or once you are something are you that forever? Is your Identity something that you can protect?
In my American Studies class we had to relate TV Tokenism to mythology and identity, by doing so I learned that your identity is something that might not only belong to you, but can be stereotyped into a group of people. Like in TV Tokenism where African Americans were portrayed negatively and their mythology had not really changed, people thought that their identity was the same as it has been for years.
Your identity can be determined in many ways, but how do other people determine it? Can the mythology of your past determine your identity?
2 comments:
This is a very insightful post and yes I do feel that your identity can be changed. I think that someones identitity is based on his or her expiriences throughout their life. Any moment in a person's life can change the way that they think, act, and view the world. And if I am not mistaken, aren't those the components that make up our identity?
Good ideas here, Jillian. I only wish you could take this even further with specific examples.
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