Essays on Individual Identity

Nelson Mandela once declared, ‘If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.’ This couldn’t have been more accurate in Ken Liu’s fascinating anthology ‘The…

Since the beginning of time labels that are put on people and the way everyone is viewed has shaped identities across the globe. Identity can be found by someone’s name. A name gives a stranger a very broad spectrum of how an acquaintance may act….

 When a person is asked about identity, the most common response that you will get is a name, but an individual’s identity is so much more complex than that. Norton (1997) defined identity as “how people understand their relationship to the outside world, how that…

The United States has embraced the most diverse population in the world today. It is diverse in terms of its ethnic makeup and religious practices for immigrants. Immigrants from different nations congregate in the United States in seeking a better life for family or simply…

For millions of years, humans have been using language to describe themselves, others, and anything else one may come into contact with. Language has become so strong to the human race, that it completely has the ability to shape one’s identity. The usage of certain…

A social expectation is a disguised social standard for societies as a whole, about what individuals ought to do. It works on two unique levels—first on specific family or cultural gatherings and second on the overall population. Good evening Mr. Siddique and classmates today I…

Some scholars argue that African communitarianism does not do justice to individuality. Critically discuss this claim. What is communitarianism? According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Communitarianism is an ideology which emphasizes the responsibility of the individual to the community and the social importance of the…

The world is constantly changing and there is nothing one can do about it. Literature changes along with the rest of the world. Writers and artists dedicate what they do to show us what the world was like at a certain point in the world…

The act of remembrance is strategically used to explain a group’s past and to transform it into a reliable collective identity for the group’s present. In his foundational work, Realms of Memory, Pierre Nora defines memory as “subject to the dialectic of remembering and forgetting”…

A subculture is a group of individuals with the same interests that oppose social norms in society. it is a culture division within a larger culture with separate values and practices unique to them. They identify themselves semiotically, behaviourally and ideologically. Subcultures can have an…