Identity
Five years ago, I arrived here, the city of Benicia in California, with the hollow heart wondering what challenges am I going to face, and how is like to be live in this unfamiliar place. A few days later, I found that there was a huge communication problem between the people at school, on the street, or even the cashier at a grocery store and me. Yet, people dressed totally different than I normally seen before. Some people dressed with clothes or pants with holes on it, which others can clearly seen what colors of their underwear are; also, some people, mostly male, they only wear their pants up to the middle of their butts, sometimes even lower, which showed what kind of boxer they were wearing. In addition, some kids or teenagers were walking in a way that I had never seen before, some of them walking with their shoulders swinging left and right; some of them walked like a cripple, which never bent the left or right leg when they walk. I was surprised by the style of how people wore clothes and the way they acted. I felt that I
However, is those people really had found their own identity? Or they just try to draw other people's attention for what they did to their bodies or their appearances? In America, "the freedom of speech" has giving people a lot of space to express themselves to the public by acting or dressing certain way that they desired, in a way that they could find their own identity out of it. In the text, the Ring Leader, by Natalie Kusz, had presented an example of the impact for a person to find his or her own identity. Because of the incident had destroyed her look, and her appearance of her body, and her background had discourage her confident to live in the society, and grew up depressingly. In the essay, Natalie had written about her personal experience. But does Natalie father really accepted what she had done, or he just thought that he does not has the power to control her wills and acts? And do all the students thought that way, or just what Natalie thought this is what in their minds? Was Natalie's daughter grown up depressingly as Natalie, which is why she thought her mother is cool? In the text, the article on Men, Women, Sex, and Darwin, by Natalie Angier, had put the identity of men and women together and discuss with sexuality and Darwin's Evolutionary theory. I started to pay more attention to the newspaper and watched more television, in order to fulfill my curiosity of the culture in America. Then, I found that people wear clothes and act in certain way because of the word "identity". In addition, her daughter declared that she is the hippest parent she knew and started introduce Natalie to her junior high friends. Natalie started to hear what students thought of her nostril; she looks like she must understand something about where she is coming from. After that, when she went back to school, her students got over their initial shock relatively quickly, having already seen the trailer-park ambience of her office, and they became less apt to question her judgment on their papers. When she got home that day, his father looked clam and seems like he knew that would happen. At the beginning she showed that she considered herself grew up ugly. was living in a city full of weird people. However, at the age of thirty, she got herself a right nostril pierce.
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