Free Write Identity Pt 2

So I find myself again in another free write on a different Article about identity, and yet again I was given the instructions to write about three different concepts of the article that related to identity and basically explain them. But after reading this article, so moved and so touched, I realized that I would be unable to do so. This article touches basically all of the edges surrounding identity and what it is and how to find it in everyday life, so I figured why not touch on a little bit of everything? First off a comparison I saw right off the bat with what we went over in class was when Illing stated that we have multiple identities, “Each of us has multiple overlapping identities. In my case, I’m white and male and straight and American and a journalist and on and on”. Simultaneously to me reading that quote I remembered that Dr. Drown said identities change. He used an example with me saying that my identity in the rink is far different than my identity in the classroom. Having remembered that and looking directly at the quote, it makes me realize that Illing is absolutely correct when he makes that claim due to the fact that I know after i’m done writing this and I go to the rink for hockey practice i’m known as a whole different person to  the study group i’m with right now rather than my teammates on and off the ice. I guarantee when you’re done reading this and you put down the laptop and get back to your normal everyday life you’ll notice a different identity is possessing you. Whether that identity turns into being a parent, an athlete, or maybe even an employee, it is imperative to know that you possess more than one identity. Another example could be your political identity which the article spends most of the time touching upon. Appiah illustrates this the best when he says, “It’s simply not possible to do politics without identity, unless we’re talking about the sort of politics that Aristotle imagined, which is politics in a community where everybody knows everybody else — but that’s not the world we live in. We have to be communities of strangers, and the only way communities of strangers can do anything together is through imaginative identification. And that’s what identity gives us.”. This is crucial to the point where all of us can relate because whether or not our views are public… We all have them.