Nonetheless, the extrovert displays their personality outside of themselves. They are seen to have no anxiety with regard to crowds and displays of popularity. People use their identity to propel and facilitate them on how to operate in the world with regard to personal development and self-improvement. We have to look at the cultural category we find ourselves in. What is the language and culture of self? It is the ego, ID and superego superimposed on the blueprint of our consciousness. We are taught from birth. We are conditioned from birth. What is the language of identity? It is always in flux. Take, for example, a teenager who will always try to fit in with the crowd. The leaders in high school are the athletes, the popular crowd who follow all the latest trends but once high school is over this is not the case anymore. We do what our parents tell us to do until we do not accept what they tell us as the truth anymore. Identity, as Woodward states, is not fixed.
Therefore, the extrovert displays their personality outside of themselves. They are seen to have no anxiety with regard to crowds and displays of popularity. People use their identity to propel and facilitate them on how to operate in the world with regard to personal development and self-improvement. We have to look at the cultural category we find ourselves in. What is the language and culture of self? It is the ego, ID and superego superimposed on the blueprint of our consciousness. We are taught from birth. We are conditioned from birth. What is the language of identity? We exist as a collective culture and are not made up of various cultures (Thornton, 1987). Woodward pointed out that it is who we are on the inside that is the question. Who we are is always in flux. Take, for example, a teenager who will always try to fit in with the crowd. The leaders in high school are the athletes, the popular crowd who follow all the latest trends but once high school is over this is not the case anymore. We do what our parents tell us to do until we do not accept what they tell us as the truth anymore. Identity, as Woodward states, is not fixed.
Moreover, we cannot exist in isolation from the world, from modern society, the personal and the social. It is embodied, Woodward says and it is my opinion that it is inclusive. For the identity to be integrated into society certain things have to be predicted from birth. Gender and pronouns have now entered the public domain. We are living in the age of machines, artificial intelligence and robots. I read somewhere that someday technology is going to surpass humanity. I made a note of that in my high school diary. My identity was being formed, licked into shape, built, invented and reinvented by the boys I fell in love with, my friends, trips to the mall, and an English teacher/novelist whom I admired from afar. I was far away from home and missed my siblings. Their identities were being formed by Model C schools and attachments to a certain kind of lifestyle. They would go on to expensive universities, the best in the world and I would go to film school.
Therefore, loneliness also instructed me (and this informed my identity) as to how I would spend the day (I would mostly be alone, I spent a lot of time alone) and then the realisation of what makes up an identity began to dawn on me. When you are an isolated teenager your hopes, fears, anxieties, goals, needs, wants, and desires, are different from when you were living in your birth country. In another country, Swaziland, I began to write poetry and I began to sense as Woodward has mentioned that identity is fluid. Woodward uses the analogy of putting on your clothes when it comes to identity. A lot of women and men have a vision of themselves and what they want to project onto the rest of the world of who they are, they have their identity tied into fancy and expensive clothes. They think it makes them look better than other people, it gives them a feeling of superiority over others, and it makes them feel powerful.
It puts other people who find themselves in less fortunate circumstances at a disadvantage in their company. Not because they can’t hold down a conversation but because people make other people feel uncomfortable when they display extraversion and the next person is a withdrawn and serious introvert. Toys are still prescribed for boys and girls. There is a separation that exists between the sexes. Life begins in the womb. External factors that affect the pregnant mother affect, impact and influence the child. We want to be happy. Where does the individual’s happiness come from when society is so fragmented? The African-American (American-African) identity in the United States is steeped in the history of Lincoln freeing the slaves, freeing them from living in squalor and dismal conditions on plantations and slavery.
In conclusion, I have come to realise that there is no need to bridge the gap between being an introvert and extraversion, the psychology of race relations even gender and equality and the LGBTQIA community, but that rather acceptance comes from our shared life experience and realising who we are as individuals, that our differences can neither make us or break us, or separate us even further from our shared humanity. It is what it is. We are who we are. Beauty lies in our human nature and what we have in common, such as the characteristics and traits that make up who we are at heart, and at the core of our being.