The Landscape Ahead: Who Will Identify The Individual?

[Natasha]

The Landscape Ahead: Who Will Identify The Individual?

http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/the-landscape-ahead-who-will-identify-the-individual/

12/23/10

Most of us employ a mixture of group identity terms as self-identity.  We use language, which we did not invent, to describe who we are.  Often, we did not even choose the words we use (i.e. fat, skinny, smart, gay, man, woman, tall...and so on).  Labels, judgments, names, terms – all consisting of language.

It is society, in this model, that decides how 'best' or fully to recognize someone and define them.  What are a person's rights?  Society will decide.  What is good behavior in personal appearance, sexual preference, gender assignation?  Society will decide.  Who is good-looking?  Society will decide.  Basically, when the question is 'how am I to be identified or valued?' Society will decide.

[LordKAT]

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