Expert answer:see attachment please. Length Guideline: Four to six pagesWrite a well-organized essay where you discuss your personal identity and its relationship to American culture. Consider the following:
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AMST 100
(Personal) Identity Statement
Due: Tuesday January 9, 2018
Length Guideline: Four to six pages
Write a well-organized essay where you discuss your personal identity and its
relationship to American culture. Consider the following:
What do you consider the most important aspects of your identity?
• How is your identity internal and how is your identity external?
• Do you relate to any ethnic or national identities?
• Is your identity influenced by a professional goal or discipline?
• When and where do you get pressures from other sources to identify with certain
behaviors, beliefs, or traits?
• What aspects of your identity overlap, intersect, reinforce, or conflict—list the
roles and rules of different cultural “frames” and how they can occasionally
conflict.
• How do you resolve these cultural tensions?
• Do you ignore them, or do you adjust from situation to situation?
• Have you made compromises to “fit in”? How do you feel about those
compromises? When do you feel the most “integrated”? That is when do you
feel you get to really “be yourself” in all your uniqueness and complexity?
Keywords: America—how do you define this word? How do you think your other
cultural identities relate to the keyword “America” and its relations like “freedom,” and
“democracy”? Consider aspects of your relationship to “America” that are positive,
negative, neutral, oppositional, loyal, etc. Are there ways in which you think of yourself
as relating to America in terms of other national or even global identities?
Relate the various frames of your identity to this keyword list (is something doesn’t
apply, that’s fine; don’t force it). Which of the list below seem most relevant to your
identity and why:
America/American
Nation
Freedom
Ethnicity
Gender
Diversity
Class
Citizenship
Queer
Normal
Globalization (or transnationalism)
Add any important keywords that are not here and explain why they are important; feel
free to add or invent keywords that you think are missing.
America is “a country of immigrants.” How do you relate to that statement? Is there
anything in your personal history that is directly related to that statement? Discuss what
this means (or doesn’t mean) to you.
How have social institutions like family, school, religion, government, sports, the military
etc., influenced your life?
Do you have a personal concept of the American Dream that you would like to attain for
yourself? Describe it in terms of what your income would be, where you would live
(both in terms of geography and type of home), family (single, married no kids, married
with kids, married with extended family close by), socioeconomic status, education,
benefits (health care, vacation, etc.) leisure time, retirement, and social relationships,
social roles. Is anything missing? Is your dream just about you and your family and not
connected to society as a whole? How does it tie into what you said about your identity
earlier?
Do you see your own life story and identity as connected to an ongoing progress that
relates to American culture and its history as a whole?
What keywords from the Keywords book and website do you associate with your version
of the American Dream?
How does your time at college fit with your identity and your American “dream”?
Ways to organize your statement:
As a multi-generational story with your generation as the ultimate “result.”
As a strictly individual story of how you have carved out your own identity in America.
As a mix of multi-generational and individual.
As a story of how various cultural frames influence your identity—how they conflict,
how you’ve struggled to “integrate” them, etc.
As a story of how you relate to mainstream American culture in terms of assimiliation,
individuality, etc.
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