Identity
Five years ago, I arrived here, the city of Benicia in California, with the hollow heart wondering what challenges am I going to face, and how is like to be live in this unfamiliar place. A few days later, I found that there was a huge communication problem between the people at school, on the street, or even the cashier at a grocery store and me. Yet, people dressed totally different than I normally seen before. Some people dressed with clothes or pants with holes on it, which others can clearly seen what colors of their underwear are; also, some people, mostly male, they only wear their pants up to the middle of their butts, sometimes even lower, which showed what kind of boxer they were wearing. In addition, some kids or teenagers were walking in a way that I had never seen before, some of them walking with their shoulders swinging left and right; some of them walked like a cripple, which never bent the left or right leg when they walk. I was surprised by the style of how people wore clothes and the way they acted. I felt that I
was living in a city full of weird people. I started to pay more attention to the newspaper and watched more television, in order to fulfill my curiosity of the culture in America. Then, I found that people wear clothes and act in certain way because of the word "identity". However, is those people really had found their own identity? Or they just try to draw other people's attention for what they did to their bodies or their appearances? In America, "the freedom of speech" has giving people a lot of space to express themselves to the public by acting or dressing certain way that they desired, in a way that they could find their own identity out of it. In the text, the Ring Leader, by Natalie Kusz, had presented an example of the impact for a person to find his or her own identity. In the essay, Natalie had written about her personal experience. At the beginning she showed that she considered herself grew up ugly. She lost one eye in a dog attack at seven, had scars over her face, and had an oversized body, and a low income an
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Benicia California, Natalie Kusz, Darwin's Evolutionary, Natalie Angier, , own identity, naturally attracted, darwin's evolutionary, people dressed,
Approximate Word count = 702
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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