IDENTITY & INTERDEPENDENCE

All people are born with a group identity that they preserve, build upon and change in various ways over time. Our initial identity is given to us by our families (both biological and adopted). Over time, this identity extends to include school, interests, occupations, our state, our country, our culture and the like. In other words, we are utterly dependent on each other for our identities. Sometimes people must fight to preserve their identities. This struggle is often accompanied by a search for justice.

6.19 Identity
Students understand the variety of influences and impacts of the construction, preservation, and change of identity, within families, other social structures, and nations.

Sample Questions:

What role does identity play in the issue?

What types of identity are involve?

Consider personal, family, school, state, cultural, national, religious, and others.

Were identities being formed? changed? preserved?

In what ways?

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