Thursday, 11 December 2014

About Identities

1.Gender identity: 
Gender refers to the social expectations about how boys and girls should think and act. It is the biological , social and legal status that identifies us as men and women. Gender identity refers to how we feel about our gender and our gender roles and how to communicate those feelings trough the clothes, behavior and appearance. I think that's more important how do you feel than how are you, in biological sense, I mean that, you have to follow your owns instincts because the gender identity only exists by the society. It's a concept created by our own past society. For long years ago, society says to us how must be in our lives; How we have to be, how we have to wear, what kinds of activities we must do, etc. depending if we're from one gender or other.
For example in topics like esthetic, fashion, etc. gender identity, has a hard influyent component; "You can't have hairs in your legs, it's not for a lady". This is a "stupid" example that most girls add in our mind uncounsciously, and like this, thousand of examples.

Feminine traits are ways of behaving that our culture generally associated with being a girl or a woman. Male traits are ways of behaving that our culture generally associated with being a boy or a man.

There are some terms that used to describe usually the Femininity:
 Dependent, Passive, Emotional, Sensitive, Quiet Full of grace, Innocent,
Weak, Sexually, Suggestive and Educated. 

There are some terms too that used to describe the Masculinity: 
No emotional, Independent, Competitive, uncoordinated, Experienced, Aggressive, Insensitive Active Strong , Confident, Sexually Aggressive, hard. 

All men have traits considered feminine and every woman has traits considered masculine. We can also show differents characteristics at differents times. 
The cultures teach that men and women are opposites in many ways. The
 truth is that we have more similarities than differences.
 
2.   Sexual Identity: 
Sexual identity refers to how people perceive and identify themselves as 
sexual beings, whether a man, a woman or a mixture of both. Sexual identity 
beggins at conception when the male or female biological sex is defined.
After birth, sexual identity is built and modeled, depending on many factors,
 including the relationship with the mother, father and / or both, family, school, / as friends / as, media and social and cultural environment in which they live. 
All these factors will influence how learning to be women and men and girls 
and boys receive different messages transmitted that is feminine and
 masculine. This does not necessarily have to do with biological functions, but yes about the ideas and values ​​of our culture.
In my opinion, in Sexual identity as Gender identity it's more important the 
way that you feel with your self that the way that other people see you. 
 
3.   Age identity
About the ade identity I think it's an aspect very important to considerate.
I think it's the main aspect that you have to achieve more or less. I'm not saying that if you feel young you probabbly will live better and feel inside's better, what I've to say is that you have to live your life according your age more or less; You can have some aspects that you considerate as yourself differents, but you should to achieve with some things according your age, for example, if you are a parent, you must be a parent and do the functions of a parent, you can't avoid your responsabilities as a parent and live like a teenager because if you have some principles you probabbly feel bad. I think the same, for example, with the teenager people; If you had 13 years old an live like if you were 18, probabbly in the future you'll feel tired to do the same things a lot of years and don't feel like a girl with 18. Like these, a lot of examples. 
4.   Racial/ ethnical identity: 
I think that racial and ethnical identity are some constructions of the society. The society put "names" to the colors of our skins and considerated that some colors were strongers than others and vice versa, so, in my opinion is sad that in this century exists racist people or people that hates for example gypsis; Probablly if we have more human contacts between us we will be more tolerants and these "separations" will disappears. 
 
5.   Regions/ nacional identity

National identity is a social, cultural and spatial condition; These are 
features that have a relationship with a policy environment and that, 
generally, the nations are associated with a state. 
In some cases, national identity can exist without being certified by a legal
 document. For exemple, gypsies can talk about national identity despite his 
nation does not have a territory or state that as a social group for protection. A man, therefore, can have Spanish nationality or any other country and Gypsy 
identity. 
I think that is simply that you born in some place, but...If you were born in other place? I think nacional identity doesn't exists, I mean, I love Seville, my city, and my country, Spain,but it's simply coincidence. Sometimes, nacionals identitys of ourselves create a lot of prejudices and it's the point that I don't like. If we can live with our national identity without discriminate other people for the only reason that they belong to another place it doesn't mind but, unfortunatelly 
some people have very close mind and they aren't ables to live in peace with 
other nations or cultures. I think we're in the XXI's century and it's very sad that today we've to permit this kind of actitudes and thoughts. 
 
 
6.   Religion identity
The religion identity is the feeling to belonging in some religion, for example 
the cristhyanism, the judaism or islamism. I think it depends by the own self, I
 mean, if you believe in something, you have faith, it's allright, it's respectable. But, in my personal opinion I think it depends a lot in the place where do you born and the kind of education that you receives; For example, if you born in a catholic country and your parents believe in god and teach you since
 you born the catholics principles you probbably will believe in god and will be 
catholic. Sometimes it's not happens by the same way, but, it's very ussual. 
I think that school has a lot of influences too, because we spent a lot of time 
there and we forges our mains knows and ideas. 

7.   Class identity 
I think that it's not important to have humans relations, but, unfortunatelly for some people it has a lot of weight at time to have relations of any type: 
Friends, work, neighbours,etc. Some people thinks that have to take care this "reputation". In my personal opinion, it's very sad. I think humans first of 
all are humans, so, Why don't have relations with each people that we meet? I mean, if you talk some time with a nice person why do you should stop? Because he or she hasn't got money? It's an stupid thought, but a lot of
 rich people have it; Other no, of course, but it still exists, So like all these topics, Class identity exists since the human exists and it create a lot of prejudices. Since here I invite to you to know all people and then make your own oppinion :)

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