Ascribed:
Too busy
Mature
Organized
Avowed:
Caring
Responsible
Hard worker
The ascribed identities listed above are some of the things people say to me often. My roommates often tell me that I am too busy and that I should not be involved in so many things. I got this identity by being an officer in the Pre-Vet club, Block and Bridle, and Horseman’s Association, participating as a group leader in the Student Support Services, and showing on both the Intercollegiate Horse Show teams, while taking 20 credits. I guess when I write it all down, it seems like a lot. I can see where my roommates would get that characteristic; however, I never know what to cut out of my life. All of those things seem very important to me.
Secondly, people have called me mature from a very young age. I started my first job as a busser at a find restaurant at the age of 14. By the age of 15 I had proven myself as being a hard worker and as a very mature young adult, and I was moved to a higher job. The owner’s son who did a lot of the marketing for this restaurant asked if I would help him begin a catering company. So, at the age of 15 and 16, I was in charge of hiring workers for catering events, getting things together, and sometimes going to these events as the “person in charge”, whenever the boss was unavailable. It was a great way to help me grow up and become very mature. I learned to be professional and how to talk to people in a kind manner, so the customer would be as pleased as possible. Ever since then, I was called mature for my age.
For both of the reasons listed above, being in charge of different events, and being a good student, I have been called organized. This is a very important characteristic when in college. Having to juggle extracurricular activities, a full credit class load, and trying to have some free time to sleep and watch a little television or get a little exercise definitely takes some organizational skills. However, when I was in 5th grade, I remember getting long assignments that were supposed to take us a week or more to do, and once I would get the assignment I would go home and do it all in one night, even if it took me forever to do. I wanted to be so organized and get it out of the way. Because of this, my teachers told me I should not do things all in one night, but take my time and do them over a longer time period. I don’t think they would say the same to me now.
Some of the actions that may have been taken to resist these ascribed identities are:
Ascribed Identity
Who was responsible
Actions to resist
Too busy
Myself
Don’t be SO involved
Mature
My boss and myself
Don’t grow up so fast
Organized
My teachers at a young age
Don’t be OCD when doing HW.
Questions:
Would you say most of your ascribed identities are a bad thing? Was it hard for you to come up with ascribed identities more than avowed?
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-I would say most of my ascribed identities were not bad.Actually, most of them were good things for me. It may be bacause people usually do not say negative thing for others in my country. Even if they think something bad about him or her,they try to say in a good way.
ReplyDelete-It was much easier to think about avowed identities than ascribed identities. This is because avowed identities are just how I think about me so I just wrote some ideas that came up on my mind.
* All my ascribed identities were not bad. I feel that people think very positive of me, which I like to hear. I do hear some negative things but then I change or reassure them what the truth really is.
ReplyDelete*It was easier coming up with avowed identities. I feel that I know more about myself than what others think of me.
I believe the ascribed identities are noted as about half being a bad thing. I think it depends on the person's personallity that was responsible for the ascribed identity and the mood of the person being characterized.
ReplyDeleteYes it was harder for me to figure out ascribed identities than avowed identities because avowed identities is how I see myself. Everyone has an opinion about themselves either good or bad. Ascribed Identities were harder because it was how others see you and what they think. So I thought of a few and then asked others of their opinion.
I believe that my ascribed identities never affected me negatively. Since they were mostly just general observations of me not actual hurtful comments. I found that people only observe who you are on the outside so they do not even truly affect who I am as a person.
ReplyDeleteIt was hard for me to think of what what people think me.
I would say that the avowed identities were easier to come up with. I think that sometimes you know that people think certain things about you because of the way they act or certain things they say, but it’s no always easy to interpret what identity it is they are giving you unless they flat out say it. Most of my ascribed identities started out being bad, and then I had to shift my thought pattern. I think the negative ones are easier to remember because they are attached to stronger feelings. If it hurts you because someone things you are a jerk, it will likely stick in your mind longer than if someone said you are friendly.
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