Dan Williams

English 1100

3 September 2015 

Prof. Young

What does Identity means to You?

            Identity is who you are. Identity is your background and ethnicity. I am Italian, Germany, English, Scottish, and Irish. I am mostly Italian. I like to enjoy my culture. We like to have big Sunday dinners. My Mom is also Italian and cooks the meals. Italians have been known as the Mob but I am not one of them. I am a nice Italian who doesn’t want to take apart in that. Also, there was this T.V. show called the Jersey Shore. The show was about four young male and female adults partying and having fun on the Jersey Shore. They were also known as guidos and guidettes because of their Italian ethnicity. Many people think that if you are Italian that you are a guido or a guidette. I am not those can of people. Italians are people who have moved to America to live a better life.

My identity is important to me. Anzaldua believes that it’s very important to have an identity. "Chicnanos did not know we were a people until 1965 when Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers united and I Am Joaquin was published and la Raza Uninda party was formed in Texas. With that recognition, we became a distinct people. Something momentous happened to the Chicano soul- we became aware of our reality and acquire a name and a language (Chicano Spanish) that reflected that reality. Now that we had a name, some of the fragmented sentences pieces began to fall together- who we were, what we were, how we had evolved. We began to get glimpses of what we might eventually become"(Anzaldua P.264). My identity is what I have become. 

Works Citied

 Anzaldua, Gloria. “How to tame a Wild Tongue.” Teaching Developmental Writing. Ed. Susan Naomi Bernstein. Fourth ed. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2013. 245-255. Print.