How Do Family Legacies Contribute To And/Or Inhibit An Individual's Identity
Billie Hensley
Bonnie Wolfe
Eng. 122
11/22/2012
Is an individual made from the roots he or she is from? People’s personal identities and family along with cultural legacies all go together to create an individual person, but an individual person’s identity is made from their own personal experiences in life. How do family traditions and legacies contribute to and/or inhibit an individual’s identity? Or is self-identities created from one’s own self? Self-identity is what a person thinks about one’s self and what his or her place is in the world. A person’s identity is made up of his or her own personal experiences and searching within one’s …show more content…
Family traditions are a mixture of people’s attitudes, ideas, and cultures in which a person learns values. Family traditions do help people build characteristics that involve their self and others around them. A person’s family can help make the final result of who or how an individual person turns out, but only if that person chooses to follow these traditions and keep them alive. People are different in many ways but they are also alike in many ways. Families are one of the ways people are alike and the social upbringing one may have had. The traditions in a family are one of the ways people are different. Family traditions are a social and personal identity that everyone develops that belong to a family or a group. The family and all that is inherited helps people become who they are as adults. Also, as individual people they do not have to follow what they were taught while growing up. Some people are considered the black sheep in their family. This is because they do not act and/or believe in the same manor that their family taught them. They go against the cultural norm and do not act or believe the same way they were taught when growing up. People are given values and goals to help them be guided in life, but some do not follow guidance and do or believe the way they feel is in their best
Bonnie Wolfe
Eng. 122
11/22/2012
Is an individual made from the roots he or she is from? People’s personal identities and family along with cultural legacies all go together to create an individual person, but an individual person’s identity is made from their own personal experiences in life. How do family traditions and legacies contribute to and/or inhibit an individual’s identity? Or is self-identities created from one’s own self? Self-identity is what a person thinks about one’s self and what his or her place is in the world. A person’s identity is made up of his or her own personal experiences and searching within one’s …show more content…
Family traditions are a mixture of people’s attitudes, ideas, and cultures in which a person learns values. Family traditions do help people build characteristics that involve their self and others around them. A person’s family can help make the final result of who or how an individual person turns out, but only if that person chooses to follow these traditions and keep them alive. People are different in many ways but they are also alike in many ways. Families are one of the ways people are alike and the social upbringing one may have had. The traditions in a family are one of the ways people are different. Family traditions are a social and personal identity that everyone develops that belong to a family or a group. The family and all that is inherited helps people become who they are as adults. Also, as individual people they do not have to follow what they were taught while growing up. Some people are considered the black sheep in their family. This is because they do not act and/or believe in the same manor that their family taught them. They go against the cultural norm and do not act or believe the same way they were taught when growing up. People are given values and goals to help them be guided in life, but some do not follow guidance and do or believe the way they feel is in their best