What Influences a Person's Identity?

Identity

What influences a person's identity? Is it their homes, parents, religion, or

maybe where they live? When do they get one? Do they get it when they

understand right from wrong, or when they can read, or are they born with

it? Everyone has one and nobody has the same, is there a point in everyone

's life when they get one? A person's identity is his own, nobody put it

there and nobody can take it out. Everyone in this world has a different

identity because they all make their own over the course of their life. A

person's identity also causes a person to have masculine and feminine

traits. There is no one thing that gives a person their identity, there are

however many different factors that contribute to one's identity.

What is someone's identity? Is it the way they look, the way they dress, or

it could be many things all put together, or is it none of the above? To me

someone's identity is a part of their being. Nobody will ever hold it, touch

it, or even see it, but it is there. Everybody has one, it guilds your decision

making, your thoughts, ideas, and dreams. You may think something is

terrible while someone else does not even care and yet another person

may laugh, why? The answer is simple, everyone has his own identity and

personality. Everyone feels, acts, thinks, and dreams differently. People may

have some of these things in common with one another, but they will not

be totally the same, it is like a fingerprint, unique.

There are many origins to a person's identity, their family, friends, home

life, religion, environment and others. But how does it get there, you do not

go into a store and pick on off the shelf. A person's identity is developed

over many years and put together by the person themselves. It comes from

the individuals ability to think, reason and form an opinion. Nobody has the

same mind, or the same or the same conscious, so how could anyone have

the same identity as another. A person's identity is developed over many

years from the time they become aware of their surroundings, to the time

they decide if they are going to college, and even as they grow old there

identity will change with them. As people's dreams are dreamed and goals

are accomplished their identities will change with the individual. Their

aspirations and values will change, causing their identities to change with it.

It may be a slight alteration or a major overhaul but there identity will

adjust to the person.

One of the factors of forming an identity will obviously be your family. One

's family if invaluable to them. Your family may not be your biological

parents or ever a blood relative at all, but nobody in this world can live from

birth without some one. But no matter who it is, they will be the people

who take care of you when you are sick or aid you when you need help.

These people will be there with you for a long time and yes they will have a

major impact on what you turn out to be it the future. A lot off people are

fortunate enough to live with a mother and a father, they may ever have

some brothers and sisters to play with as they grow up. But ever with the

same family influences, brothers and sisters still do not have the same

identities Some may even say having a "traditional" family would be bad for

the development of an identity. For example, what kind identity would a

young girl develop if see repeatedly saw her father beat on her mother. She

would probably not feel the same as another girl whose father always

showed love and caring for her mother. What about a teenager who used

drugs as often as he changed his underwear. Would his younger brother, in

looking up to him, feel the same as another boy who grew up never seeing