IDENTITY

Black, white, yellow, or tan; tall or short; fat or skinny; pretty or ugly are the terms that we use to describe someone's identity. It doesn't really matter if you like it for not, you still have to face that you are who you are. However, ones indentity will change depends on different situations like where you live and time. When we were little our identity might be a lot different than who we are right now. We know more about identity as we grow up. For people who lived in their own country for their whole lives, they might not notice the importance of identity because all the people that were around them were having same skin color and look almost the same. However, for people like us, who moved from one country to another, identity often plays a really big role in our lives. It not only identified us we who we are, but also showed others where we were originally from; Asia, Europe, or Africa. So it really important for us to make our identities clear. In the book "Funny in Farsi", the author Firoozeh Dumas doesn't like people to ask where she was from, just like as if her face has mark that says "I was from other country." and she wish that she could come back as a Swedish, people that have lighter skin so she could just simply pretend she's french. In my opinion, I am so proud of who I am today, and so should everybody. To be so proud of yourselves because we are being here not only to identified as one self, but we are representing the whole country that we came from. If you don't like your own country, who will? It is just like a phrase that was saying"If you don't take care of yourself, no one will." We have to show that we LOVE our countries in order to persuade other to love our countries too.