A paper on why age resembles ones cultureal identity.

Essay by GOALMAKERUniversity, Master'sA, October 2004

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Age Transpires Identity

As a multivocallity, twenty-year-old, middle-class, heterosexual, male, student of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater with white American, German, Methodist, cultural history; the feelings I express regarding all of these cultural identities varies in intensity. The identities that I define are as follows: age, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, gender, organization, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion. The identity that expresses the most intensity is my age. Age is what tells a person what they should be doing and how they should act. Age is one of the most influential identities because it reflects a person's perception and, most of all, communication. Identity age is effortless to distinguish and, because it relates to virtually twenty percent of America's population, puts me in a majority. The stereotype of my generation is that we have low expectations with high results and that many of us enroll in institutions after high school. There are many advantages and some disadvantages of being a twenty year old, but first, one must understand the different types of cultural identities.

There are thirteen different cultural identities that compose who individuals are. The intensity behind the identity fluctuates from type to type and person to person. Nationality is the nation in which a person resides by cause or birth. Ethnicity is the person's ethnic characteristics or background. Gender is the sexual identity of the person relating to society. Profession is the occupation or career an individual holds, but one can be a student for a profession. Next there is Geography, which is closely interpolated with nationality because geography is where the individual resides within their country or nation. Organizations are coordinated groups of people working towards particular purposes. The state where someone stands at both a social level and an economic level is one's socioeconomic status. Physical ability is being...