Identidad

Please visit the following website to view our video about identity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rECi4CCyT-k

Nuestra Raza

Nuestra Raza
namaste,

hola,

bonjour,

ciao...

etc...
this space was created with the intention to open your eyes on how we see the world and how the world see us. who we really are, what makes us unique. what role do we play in this planet and what do we contribute to each other. for this project we decided to make a reflection poem describing what identity is . Along with a video of people reciting each sentence from it. the poem itself was written in Spanish. it will take olace in different locations and hopefull it will cross borders to other coutries so their voices will be heard too. to keep you inform on the project and to get to see the video. it will be post and upload in youtube.com for participants and for you to watch too. thank you..

HOLA, HELLO, BONJOUR, CIAO, SALAM, KONBANWA….

~Identidad, ser o estar, cultura, genero, raza, personalidad, religion~ cultura tradiciones mil emociones (12 de diciembre, dia de los muertos, etc), con unas cuantas chelas, un concepto inventado por los humanos que pasa de generacion a generacion de abuelos a padres a hijos y asi sucesivamente (fotos, bailes, videos) ~ religion, ya seas catolico, evangelico, cristiano, budista o simplemente ateo, sin pensar, sin razonar~ sin rostro, con fe, el bien y el mal osea el yin yang, crees? Crees en algo pero no en todo, mil instrumentos una sola verdad. Ya sea la biblia, el coran, el tora, el tamud, el bagbadgita, al final una misma persona, un mismo Dios, mio, tuyo, de todos. ~raza es la pura neta (guey), azteca, inca, maya, corre y refleja, tu acento, color ya seas blanco, negro, mestiso. ~un genero dos tipos, mujer (TERNURA, DULSURA, BALANCE, MADRE, HIJA, HERMANA, ABULA, AMIGA), varon (SUSTENTO, PROTECCION, SEGURIDAD), con lleva a personalidad ya seas, alto/a, bajo/a, delgado/a, gordito/a, o que sea homosexual, bisexual, transgenero o eterosexual, o eligas ser religioso, cholo, emo, vaquero o roquero, o te vistas con ropa blanca, negra, pegada, floja, el ser DIFERENTE. Una forma de expresarte y darle a entender a la sociedad quien realmente eres. Al final vivimos en una jungla de semento donde la sociedad, la publicidad, nos supciona y nos intoxica. Donde hay que apreder a aceptarse uno mismo y a los demas sin muchas fantacias. Hay que aprender a vivir como humanos, a tendernos la mano, a ser verdaderos hermanos, aprender a pedir perdon y perdonar. Dejarte ayudar y ayudar quien mas lo aclame, sobre todo ViVe la Vida, y disfruta el ser tu mismo, tu indentidad es lo que te ase unico. Tu, yo, nosotros, somos UNO, uno, UNO

Art is a form of expressing one's identity

Favian

:::Identidad para mi significa en pocas palabras tu ser, tu creatividad para ver las cosas negativas y positivas. Tu honestidad, tu forma de ser, de hablar, de verstir todo es parte de tu indentidad que por su puesto indica en general de donde eres, tu raises y valores.:::Ne nuestro projecto decisimos intentar mostrar que es la indentidad y que tan inportante es en nuestra vida social, personal ect. Creo yo que el projecto se enfoca en que no importa de donde vienes, tu raises, creencias, o x cosa que quieras trasmitir a la sociedad ya sea buen recivida o no creo que eso solo importa en ti y no entre la sociedad. El ser tu, y ser libre de poder transmitir energia positiva y con el simple echo de vivir libre no de "el que diran" simplemente te brinda paz y harmonia asi te personalidad alfinal todos domo iguales idependientemente del nivel de vida que estes viviendo!

baile Azteca

Nicole Scott

My name is Nicole Scott and as my group members have stated, we chose to center our project on the idea of identity and what it means to every individual person. Some people may identify themselves with a certain group or crowd, and20others may identify with their culture. The answer is different for everyone. We came up with many ideas and one of them was to come up with some questions about identity we could ask to strangers or people we know. A few of the questions I came up with are what is identity to you, how are identities formed, how much control do we have in shaping our identities, and what part of your identity is more important to you and why. I chose these questions because they require an answer further than yes or no, we really wanted to know what people’s thoughts on identity were. I really enjoyed this project. Once we finally got our idea straight everyone was able to brainstorm together and come up with this project. It was interesting to see how different people felt about identity and what they relate to.

Max

My name is Jeffrey “Max” Jaimes, and for this project we (group 1) decided to discuss the issue of identity as to how it relates to ourselves and to the world. This idea emerged because in our class with Professor Maris Bustamante at San Francisco State, we were asked to challenge ourselves into understanding why it is that being ourselves in front of other people makes us uncomfortable. For example, Professor Bustamante asked us to present in front of the class information about ourselves; in the process, we discovered that we had some difficulty speaking in front of others…. This lead me to ask why that is, and I wanted to explore how our identity about who we are plays a role in how comfortable we are in our own skins. For these reasons, we decided to tackle the issue of our own identity and how other people see themselves as part of a larger community, and within their own community. In addition, this topic aimed at understanding what Professor Bustamante suggested that as humans bombarded with so much information and with all the expectations on us, our identity becomes somewhat fragmented, and outside of our element; our element of wholeness that we had as newborn. As part of our project in group 1, I worked on issues of culture. In particular, I came up with some writing about what I think culture is and how it shapes identity. I was particularly interested in forced or instituted issues of identity and culture. For example, I suggested that as individuals, as soon as we start to learn, our concept of culture is given to us by our parents and society. At least at the beginning, we are in a way forced our family’s ways of experiencing the world though their stories that they share with us. As we grow-up, the indoctrinating continues though religion and educational institutions. As a result, our perspective about culture is what the government, religious leaders and our parents have either provided or forced onto us. Of course there are positive aspects of this type of culture sharing, such as traditions and a bond with our families, and others that are also part of this circle of similar views and values. The conclusion that this part of the project had on me is that culture is not static, and once one realizes that there is and was indoctrination on our view of self, then one can adopt new cultures and possibly improve on the continuous negative cycle that leads to fragmentation of the identity to others.

Ric

For the video everyone in the group was given a important factor of identity, i was given the word Raza, even though most of the sentences i wrote wasn’t in the poem, the point still came across in the video. Raza is what is given to you at birth, we cant decide what race, we get to be when we come into this world, one should embrace their race with full appreciation, and one shouldn’t let your race be taken by Americanizing unless you consider yourself more American than the race of what your parents are. Raza is a great part of your identity, raza es la pura neta.

Angelica Anguiano Alcaraz

Angelica

For this project my topic was gender, I think gender influences the sense of identity. Depending on each individual’s ethnic background the role of gender changes from one country to another. I think we have assigned certain stereotypes on genders and in a world with mass media we have mislead the concept of gender roles. Personally I don’t think there is a dominant sex, I think we are all part of a perfect biological system which has made procreation possible. I don’t think we realize that we need each other, it is not possible to procreate without one or the other; no matter how far science has come we still need each other to have and form a family.

My topic was gender and so I interviewed a married couple, she told me that she brought the softness and was more calmed and comprehensive. She is the one that keeps the family and house together, she brings the perfect stability to her husband’s rough attitudes. He told me that he was more of an authority figure, he felt he had to be the provider and be responsible for the problems that rise in the house. He accepts that his wife is an enormous help because she is the one to hold him back when he is being inconsiderate-to me it was a very big shock to see that he accepted the fact that he could be wrong and let his wife help.

But you see, this is what makes things work, things like machismo and big egos are worth nothing if they can’t keep your family together and bring you happiness. This is all part of identity and it shapes everyone. If we can learn to accept each other without prejudice we can coexist, maybe not in perfect harmony but good enough. I think it is foolish to think that life can be perfect, but its possible for life to be good.

My contribution to this project was: I was given the word “Gender” and I was to write a few sentences abut it and sent it to Yajaira who would then make a poem. The poem was going to be turned into a video. I interviewed a married couple and asked them what gender meant to them and how they thought it made a difference in the world.

I also contributed on the creation of this blog

Yajaira Morales

Yajaira Morales
en general...for the project we decided to make a video about the difference between people and how we connect together. for that task we came with the idea of making a video showing diversity in sf along with a poem about identity.
in addition, for the project my contribution to it, to organize the words to each one in the group. then fix the sentences that were given to me, and transform it in to a reflexion type poem.my word was Religion, i came across with different views, para describir la palabra religion, se divide en muchos grupos. Ya seas catolico, evangelico, cristiano, budista o simplemente ateo... todos utilizan diferentes instrumetos, al final una sola verdad, un mismo dios. Ya sea el bien o el mal, caemos en un sin numeros de preguntas sin respuestas, creemos en todo y a la ves en nada. Rico and i were in change of filming take pictures , editing trails and sound on the video.Experience.overall the experience was great, it was something new that i was looking forward to do.

walking san francisco streets made me see and realize how different we can be but how identical we are. uniqueness in san francisco stand out the minute you step out. i enjoyed doing this as i hope everyone enjoy watching it.