Critical Self Reflective Essay On Personal Identity
Jane Thomas
Critical Self Reflective Essay
Every individual has something that defines who they are by the things that they do. All these events that we experience in our lifetime whether it be good or bad, assisted in developing the people we are today. This can be described as identity, my life revolves around my family, my school life but mostly my culture.
According to Ask.com cultural identity can be described as “The identity of a group, culture or an individual where one is inclined by one’s belongings to a group or culture”. My cultural backgrounds contributes an enormous portion of my identity. I remember how every year I would be waiting for National Pride Day in elementary school, so I could dress up in …show more content…
She was right after continuing to play with the pole my cousin and I both got stung from wasp and went crying to our grandmother to nurse and make us feel better.
During my teenage years I faced a lot of experiences which changed my personality in a very negative way. It was hard for me to talk to my classmates and stayed to myself because I didn’t want anyone knowing or even finding out what was going on at home. I would pull my hair out of my scalp because it was the only thing that kept me calm. The students at my school would make a mockery out of me because they thought I was weird and creepy, but little that they knew I had witnessed my mother being abused by my father on numerous occasions and that the last time she almost died. Not one of them knew my pain and I was not going to share it with any of them. I kept all of those emotions of hatred and insecurities imprisoned and those emotions turned into raged. I wasn’t a bad person, I just had anger issues and I dealt with those issues through drawing and cooking. Cooking calmed me down because it allowed me …show more content…
Now that I have succeeded on getting into college my dreams were to travel and experience different cultures. Although I was not happy in leaving my little sisters and my mother behind, it was time for me to become that independent little girl I once was before all the tragedy. I deserved to be happy, that’s what my mother told me and my sister before we left to study abroad.
Since I have came to Denver, I have noticed that their culture is totally different from our culture in the Bahamas because they do not cook as much as Bahamians do and they smile a lot and some them are very friendly. I might miss my homeland and Bahamian food sometimes but
I like the place where I am at today because I feel more at peace with myself than I have felt in a very long time. I feel accepted by my friends and I also feel loved. Cultural identity does not have to basically deal with a person’s nationality but it mean being recognized or acknowledged by a group of friends or people, it gives an individual a sense of
Critical Self Reflective Essay
Every individual has something that defines who they are by the things that they do. All these events that we experience in our lifetime whether it be good or bad, assisted in developing the people we are today. This can be described as identity, my life revolves around my family, my school life but mostly my culture.
According to Ask.com cultural identity can be described as “The identity of a group, culture or an individual where one is inclined by one’s belongings to a group or culture”. My cultural backgrounds contributes an enormous portion of my identity. I remember how every year I would be waiting for National Pride Day in elementary school, so I could dress up in …show more content…
She was right after continuing to play with the pole my cousin and I both got stung from wasp and went crying to our grandmother to nurse and make us feel better.
During my teenage years I faced a lot of experiences which changed my personality in a very negative way. It was hard for me to talk to my classmates and stayed to myself because I didn’t want anyone knowing or even finding out what was going on at home. I would pull my hair out of my scalp because it was the only thing that kept me calm. The students at my school would make a mockery out of me because they thought I was weird and creepy, but little that they knew I had witnessed my mother being abused by my father on numerous occasions and that the last time she almost died. Not one of them knew my pain and I was not going to share it with any of them. I kept all of those emotions of hatred and insecurities imprisoned and those emotions turned into raged. I wasn’t a bad person, I just had anger issues and I dealt with those issues through drawing and cooking. Cooking calmed me down because it allowed me …show more content…
Now that I have succeeded on getting into college my dreams were to travel and experience different cultures. Although I was not happy in leaving my little sisters and my mother behind, it was time for me to become that independent little girl I once was before all the tragedy. I deserved to be happy, that’s what my mother told me and my sister before we left to study abroad.
Since I have came to Denver, I have noticed that their culture is totally different from our culture in the Bahamas because they do not cook as much as Bahamians do and they smile a lot and some them are very friendly. I might miss my homeland and Bahamian food sometimes but
I like the place where I am at today because I feel more at peace with myself than I have felt in a very long time. I feel accepted by my friends and I also feel loved. Cultural identity does not have to basically deal with a person’s nationality but it mean being recognized or acknowledged by a group of friends or people, it gives an individual a sense of