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IDENTIFYING YOURSELF TO A SPECIFIC ACTOR IN THE THREE IDIOTS MOVIE

BUILDING AND NEGOTIATING SELF – IDENTITY IN A SOCIAL CONTEXT

In our group, we commonly agree to choose to identify ourselves in the character of Raju, the

second Idiots in the movie because we have seen some of his characteristics to us. Raju, has a

personality combinations of being Extroverted, Intuitive, Feeling and Judging (ENFJ). Based from the

movie, he portrayed to be warm, empathetic, responsive and responsible. He is highly attuned to the

emotions, needs, and motivations of others. He finds potential in everyone, wants to help others fulfill

their potentials. He is sociable, facilitates others in a group. These were justified when he is emotionally

moved to Rancho when he rushed his father to the hospital and when Virus rusticated him from college.

He is loyal and responsive when his Director asked him to reveal who he was with, the last night.

In terms of building and negotiating Raju’s self-identity in a social context he is into, the

following were the analysis made: a) Raju formed his reflective self-identity such as cultural identity and

ethnic identity through socialization process. These identities shape his thinking, emotions, and

communication patterns, so in order to understand a person and communicate with him we need to

understand his background as quoted by Nico Vink, “As social beings, we become ourselves in

communicating with others”; b) Raju’s negotiate himself by his anxieties. Anxiety can signal to

individuals that a person poses a threat to their enduring beliefs about themselves; and lastly, c) Raju

negotiate his self-identity by linking all of his identities to underlying concerns about competence and

connectedness, or by imbuing the different identities with a similar affective tone. However,

despite those identity negotiations of Raju he was still be able to build up himself in a more positive and

confident manner as influenced by his personal experiences in the family, school as threatened by his

Director and his two friends in the story.

Group Names: ALBAY, ARVELLA M.


CAMARA, SARAH
DEL ROSARIO, ANABELLA G.

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