Essay On Latin American Identity
Identity
To define identity, we have to understand many different types of identity (personal, cultural, national, gender, etc.) as well as the existence of the concept in different areas such as economy, engineering or mathematics. In our investigation, we focused on the social sciences notion of identity, along with the notion on philosophy, to conclude with our own definition of identity.
As we previously know, identity refers to several features such as physical, psychological or sociological, which distinguish a person or community, one from the other. An identity is an endless and infinite construction, because it appropriates and wipe away of elements, accordingly to its bonds with them.
In philosophy, the theory of identity makes reference to a relationship that every being maintains itself; however, this notion leads to confusion, since the former description leads to idea of numeric identity, that proves the non-existence of two equal beings; they just share an identical name. But then again, this leads to another major misunderstanding; in philosophy, it exists the principle of discernible identities, …show more content…
In addition, we consider closer to us to refer to slavery, concept which we narrate our investigation. Is appropriate to, furthermore, that Latin American identity is shifting since its roots; locating us in a historical framework, Latin America did not emerge to justify or vindicate the imperialistic European period from the past fourteenth to eighteenth centuries; it’s history arose since much before that time, and its unique elements are a blend of varied attributes, which goes of an Asian-African mixture until traces of the firsts Sumerian civilizations, Mesopotamia, China, India and others, as mentioned by Enrique Dussel on his text The invention of the Americas : eclipse of `the other´ and the myth of modernity. (Chapter
To define identity, we have to understand many different types of identity (personal, cultural, national, gender, etc.) as well as the existence of the concept in different areas such as economy, engineering or mathematics. In our investigation, we focused on the social sciences notion of identity, along with the notion on philosophy, to conclude with our own definition of identity.
As we previously know, identity refers to several features such as physical, psychological or sociological, which distinguish a person or community, one from the other. An identity is an endless and infinite construction, because it appropriates and wipe away of elements, accordingly to its bonds with them.
In philosophy, the theory of identity makes reference to a relationship that every being maintains itself; however, this notion leads to confusion, since the former description leads to idea of numeric identity, that proves the non-existence of two equal beings; they just share an identical name. But then again, this leads to another major misunderstanding; in philosophy, it exists the principle of discernible identities, …show more content…
In addition, we consider closer to us to refer to slavery, concept which we narrate our investigation. Is appropriate to, furthermore, that Latin American identity is shifting since its roots; locating us in a historical framework, Latin America did not emerge to justify or vindicate the imperialistic European period from the past fourteenth to eighteenth centuries; it’s history arose since much before that time, and its unique elements are a blend of varied attributes, which goes of an Asian-African mixture until traces of the firsts Sumerian civilizations, Mesopotamia, China, India and others, as mentioned by Enrique Dussel on his text The invention of the Americas : eclipse of `the other´ and the myth of modernity. (Chapter