Who Am I? Final Post

For our last blog we are asked to re-evaluate ourselves by looking at our very first blog. My first blog reflected who I was on the surface mostly, for example my hobbies, my influences and my job. I wrote my greatest influence was my older brother. Looking back this is true however, there are many many more greater societal influences I had no idea about. The media and my gender influence me to think a certain way about my body or about how much money I need to be making in order to make me "happy." I learned that my social class influences almost everything about me even what tastes good to me! I discovered race is different in all countries and is not biological at all. Basically, everything I originally thought about myself, I now have to step back and wonder..."Am I really thinking this or is my community shaping me to think this way?" I have found myself thinking this multiple times throughout my semester in Sociology and I have opened my eyes to a new way of thinking. I no longer think that one person or even one group of people can influence the human you become and I think people are so narrow minded that they fixated on this one idea. Your culture, gender, class, race and so many other things are just pieces of the puzzle that make up the person you will become.