What Identity Means to Me

Kylie Kohut

Professor Young

September 2, 2015

English 1100

    Identity according to dictionary.com is the state or fact of remaining the same one or ones, as under varying aspects or conditions. To me Identity is how you or others look at you and think of you from the way you dress, your socioeconomic status, gender, race, etc and is unique for everyone. How I would describe myself is completely different from how you would picture me if I said I was from Trenton, NJ. For starters I am insanely in love with horses, the country, country music, and rodeos; now when you think of Trenton, NJ you think of “gangs” and rap music and people that are up to no good. I also am very into my polish roots, I eat polish food cooked by my grandma all the time and know how to make chicken poplagosh and krushiki because of that. In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” there is a quote by Kaufum, that says “Identity is essential to the core of who we are as individuals, the conscious experience of the self inside”, this quote stuck out to me and made me remember about how much my grandparents and parents made sure I always knew who I was and where my roots came from. They always wanted me to be my own person and because of that I am my own person with a huge personality. How I dress, what my origins are, and how I was brought up make my identity. Without my identity I would be diminished into the nothingness of everything around me, my identity is what makes me have purpose and makes me “me”.

Work Cited

Anzaldua, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.” Teaching developmental Writing. Ed. Susan Naomi Bernstein Fourth ed. New York: Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2013. 245-255. Print.

Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, n.d. Web. 02 Sept. 2015.