What Influences a Person’s Identity?

Identity

What influences a person’s identity? Is it their homes, parents, religion, or

maybe where they live? When do they get one? Do they get it when they

understand right from wrong, or when they can read, or are they born with

it? Everyone has one and nobody has the same, is there a point in everyone

’s life when they get one? A person’s identity is his own, nobody put it

there and nobody can take it out. Everyone in this world has a different

identity because they all make their own over the course of their life. A

person’s identity also causes a person to have masculine and feminine

traits. There is no one thing that gives a person their identity, there are

however many different factors that contribute to one’s identity.

What is someone’s identity? Is it the way they look, the way they dress, or

it could be many things all put together, or is it none of the above? To me

someone’s identity is a part of their being. Nobody will ever hold it, touch

it, or even see it, but it is there. Everybody has one, it guilds your decision

making, your thoughts, ideas, and dreams. You may think something is

terrible while someone else does not even care and yet another person

may laugh, why? The answer is simple, everyone has his own identity and

personality. Everyone feels, acts, thinks, and dreams differently. People may

have some of these things in common with one another, but they will not

be totally the same, it is like a fingerprint, unique.

There are many origins to a person’s identity, their family, friends, home

life, religion, environment and others. But how does it get there, you do not

go into a store and pick on off the shelf. A person’s identity is developed

over many years and put together by the person themselves. It comes from

the individuals ability to think, reason and form an opinion. Nobody has the

same mind, or the same or the same conscious, so how could anyone have

the same identity as another. A person’s identity is developed over many

years from the time they become aware of their surroundings, to the time

they decide if they are going to college, and even as they grow old there

identity will change with them. As people’s dreams are dreamed and goals

are accomplished their identities will change with the individual. Their

aspirations and values will change, causing their identities to change with it.

It may be a slight alteration or a major overhaul but there identity will

adjust to the person.

One of the factors of forming an identity will obviously be your family. One

’s family if invaluable to them. Your family may not be your biological

parents or ever a blood relative at all, but nobody