Identity Awareness: America History Event that Shaped American Identity

Identity is the concept of feeling like you belong or that you are. It is attributed to qualities including appearance, exposure, and the current associations. Being conscious of one’s individuality helps one stand out in a crowd and is crucial to one’s personal life. The purpose of this essay is to elaborate on the significance of identity awareness, circumstances in which it would be advantageous, and an American historical event that contributed to the formation of American identity.

Identity awareness affects a person’s relationships and loyalties. As a result, how people react to situations entirely depends on who they are. Intrinsic self-motivation stems from an awareness of identity since one’s knowledge of self-prompts them to do what is necessary to make them achieve their goals (McKenzie, 2010). For instance, a diligent student studies well because they know that success comes as a result of hard work. He/she is fully aware that they only do well from working hard.

Situations in which Awareness of Personality would be beneficial

Significant Success

A significant achievement sparks fulfillment (Oyserman, 2009). It gives a sense of identity and awareness, which prompts the thirst for greater heights of success. Evaluation of accomplishments is vital to the knowledge of personality.

Conceding Defeat

Failure is not fatal, unless upon the consent of the affected party. If not well addressed, defeat may result in low self-esteem thus degrading self-worth. An individual who is aware of their identity considers downfall as a stepping stone rather than a setback.

America History Event that Shaped American Identity

The Death of Osama Bin Laden

Having championed violence and death; murder and suicide, Osama was a monster (Dodds, 2008). He was killed by the U.S. Army after a series of failed attempts to locate him using the most evolved technological means. Large populations in the world, let alone the USA sighed with relief upon his death. People now believed that terrorism was manageable, however long it would take to deal with the issue.

References

McKenzie, R. M. (2010). The social psychology of English as a global language: Attitudes, awareness and identity in the Japanese context (Vol. 10). Springer Science & Business Media.

Oyserman, D. (2009). Identity-based motivation: Implications for action-readiness, procedural-readiness, and consumer behavior. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 19(3), 250-260.

Dodds, K. (2008). Counter-factual geopolitics: President Al Gore, September 11th and the global war on terror. Geopolitics, 13(1), 73-99.