Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Self Image: Activity 1







What follows is a list of categories that serves to define and divide us. Make a personal list of the categories you belong to or have conflict with and visual symbols that are associated with each. Aspirations and expectations should also be listed.


  • Age/generation - is can dictate levels of independence afforded to the individual.
  • Gender - Our sex affects the way we are treated by some individuals.
  • Race - Prejudice and perceived racial superiority can affect hopes and aspirations.
  • Religion - Moral codes and ideologies that serve to guide, unite and divide.
  • Class or caste - A classification that an individual may never escape from.
  • Personality - Extrovert and introvert are classifications of personality.
  • Intelligence - educational establishments, based on IQ, often segregate us.
  • Political persuasion - Left wing or right wing. Each carries its own ideology.




  • Age/generation - I am a teenager. I'm to the point where I am almost an adult, but still quite young.
  • Gender - Female.
  • Race - I am half mexican, white, and 1/8th Yaqui indian.
  • Religion - Growing up, my family never enforced a religion. As I got older, I looked into what religion best described my beliefs, and found that I'd be considered an Agnostic.
  • Class or caste - My family would be considered middle class, or average. We aren't rich enough to buy a new car every far, but we do have the basic necessities, and then some.
  • Personality - I consider myself to be soft-spoken, and kept to myself, until I find myself around people that I am comfortable with.
  • Intelligence - I don't consider myself to be a genius, but I do have enough common sense to make me successful in life.


  • Political persuasion - Politics don't interest me. I don't understand them, so I don't make much of an effort to further my knowledge in them.



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