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Professor Rodrick
ENG 114B
March 12, 2016
Places Play a Roll
If you are present in this world, you are always find yourself in a
place. It can be somewhere you go to be at peace, or somewhere
wherein the day goes by so quick, you cant remember how long ago
your day started. Usually the case for this is work or school. Though
this usually depends on the situation you were born into. If you were
born in prosperity, your identity and personality will be cocky and
selfish. If you were born in poverty or sorrow, your character would be
strong and reliable, since the events that would eventually happen
would be of trauma and despair. And that would mold a person into a
tough self-sustained person. I believe that the extent a persons
identity is formed through is the space in which it is presented to.
Being forced to conform with the circumstances of the environment a
person is born into. This is entirely a matter of where will a fetus will
appear. If it is in a city girl from New York, or a black women from the
streets of Watts.
In the first scenario, a baby boy is born in the suburban area of
Dallas, Texas. He comes home in a new car, to a loving couple that will
provide him with everything he needs and more, much more. He grows
years. It explains how children in earlier ages retain the care from
parents with a safer background, with no dangers in their lives, and
that was made him into the person he is. He conformed to being given
everything. This is one of the many scenarios of identity shaped
through the place someone is born into.
of her surroundings. This is what molded her identity. The place where
she is from gave no option to conform as she grew up. Conform to the
safety precaution she had to take in the space she grew up, to the
constant pressure of helping her family, to make herself a valuable
asset to her family. Growing up in poverty is the one of many things
that took place in her striving out of it. The space she had to conform
to made her identity a respectable women with self respect and a
sense of empathy. Again, that is a common case in the U.S. to this day.
Work Cited
Bauer, Michal, Julie Chytilov, and Barbara Pertold-Gebicka. "Parental
Background
and Other-regarding Preferences in Children."
Experimental Economics, 17.1
(2014): 24-46.