My Social Identity Examples

I am a white, heterosexual, agnostic, upper-middle class, able bodied, male from Huntington Beach, California, a well-known beach community in Orange County. What does this mean exactly? It means that from birth, and as I have grown up to from a young man, I have been given a number of different identities either genetically or through my upbringing that have come to shape the person that I am today. Obviously embodying what is generally idealized as the norm, my social identity can be described, and has been described in many cases, as several things including American or “white-boy.” Through many of the things I have experienced coming from a privileged and fairly easy upbringing, I would say that I am proud to associate myself with these identities, as it has made me who I am today and allows
A lot of this had to do with my parents and the certain teachers that I had growing up and the fact that they never really took the time to address this. From an early age I was never really taught about the differences between ethnic groups, and nor was it addressed even in the slightest. It was around the second grade when I made friends with an Asian girl named Kaiya that I understood how certain people were different from others. At the time we both had a crush on each other and I told her that I wanted to be her boyfriend. Her friends at the time made fun of us and teased me and said that I was white so we could only be friends.At first I didn’t really understand it, but then as I began to realize the own color of my skin I saw how in fact I was different and similar to everyone else. Being just a child, I was obviously upset and hurt in many ways. Now being a white male, I see the many advantages and privileges that I am given because of this. Socially, being a white male on a college campus does provide ease with making friends, and allows you a much wider variety of people for having intimate relationships with. On top of this, my being