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Who Am I?
Who Am I?
Who are you? How do you make sense of who you are? What qualities define you? How are you different from the person sitting next to you? How are you similar? These are some questions we may ask ourselves when we talk about our identity.
Famous Self-Portraits
Famous Self-Portraits
Take a look at these well-known self-portraits from various artists. What do these self-portraits tell us about the artists' identities?
Frida Kahlo
Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird
Vincent Van Gogh
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear
Louise Bourgeois
Self-Portrait
Salvador Dali
Soft Self-Portrait with Fried Bacon
Gustave Courbet
The Desperate Man
Marcel Duchamp
Self-Portrait in Profile
Factors that shape identity
Factors that shape identity
Our identities are developed largely by the context in which we grew up and are currently living. This includes the circumstances or the surroundings that have shaped and continue to shape who we are.
Where your parents were born and raised may contribute to your identity because you may speak another language or feel connected to different parts of the world.
Your socio-economic status (SES) can shape your lived experiences. SES is measured using a combination of education, income, and occupation.
Religion and/or spiritual connections can play a big role in shaping your values and beliefs, which ultimately affect your actions and the choices you make in life.
You may take on different roles in different contexts that highlight different aspects of your identity. Your identity may shift when you are at school, when you are with your siblings, and when you are at work.
The following are just some of the factors that can shape our identity:
Les Misérables - Jean Valjean's identity crisis
Les Misérables - Jean Valjean's identity crisis
Jean Valjean served 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread (and attempting to escape multiple times). After successfully escaping and leading a successful life by forming a new identity, Jean Valjean discovers that an innocent man, who the court mistakenly identified as him stands trial.
Listen carefully to Jean Valjean's solo and make notes of what factors of identity shape Jean Valjean.
Who am i?
Who am i?
Review the factors that shape identity and consider how your personal identity has been formed/continue to form.
Choose a factor that shapes identity.
Explain in a few sentences how it has impacted your understanding of who you are.
Think of an item that best represents the factor that shapes your identity.
Have a minimum of 10 factors.
Collective Identity
Collective Identity
How you express your identity can be individualized or it may be part of a collective when you are a member of a group. You may be born into a collective and continue to maintain your affiliation because as a member, you develop deep values adn beliefs associated with the ideas, language, traditions, religion, and spirituality of other members in the collective.
Language
Language
The language that you speak with other members of your community is a key way in which you express your collective identity. Think of how important French is in Québec! There are special laws that protect the language rights of Francophone minorities as a way to preserve and maintain the French language.
Language is also important to our identity as it shapes our identity and how we understand the world around us. The connections that we form with other members of our collective are solidified through the language that we speak. "We are the bees then; our honey is language."
Textbook Reading
Textbook Reading
We will read pages 26-31 from the textbook together as a class. When you are finished please use the chart below to add information about your individual and collective identity. You may substitute the factors with other ones if you would like!
Identity and Globalization
Identity and Globalization
People all over the world are connected to one another in many forms. All the different ways in which we are connected are also expanding rapidly. Consider how your identity is connected and dependent on global factors
Attire
I use my clothes to express my identity and my clothes are made in Bangladesh.
Transportation
My love trucks and the first truck I got was a Toyota, which is a Japanese company.
Music
I love listening to K-Pop and I've got to learn a bit of Korean through the music.
Food
My family has avocado toast every morning, which is possible because we import avocadoes from Mexico.
Gaming
When I play games online, I can chat with other gamers from all over the world.
Meditation
I take 5 minutes in the morning to meditate, which originated in Buddhist practices in India.
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