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Identity is that sense that we give to "our own unique being", this is different in each of us and is delimited by several factors, such as the family environment. It can be an uncomfortable reality for many people, for the reason that not everyone has the chance to discover and redefine it freely: some get caught up in the process of forming it, not knowing where to go and who they really are.

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It’s the word we use to name certain groups of people who usually share a series of physical features, as well as sociocultural concepts that surround them. At first, this had been created to hierarchize the groups of the human race (so, it can be a social construction)

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“Race is a culturally structured systematic way of looking at, perceiving and interpreting reality”
Audrey Smedley

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In my opinion, memory is being able to know or recognize events that occurred in the past, many times we must have the ability to recover it so as not to make the same mistakes. In the case of a historical memory, it is kept alive through the community that seeks to remember and not let die events that marked a group of people, territories and others.

https://youtu.be/Oni5Vga1WH8

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Unesco Memory of the World - Why Documentary Heritage Matters

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"Identity is not just a matter of knowing who you are, but also of knowing who you are not, and sometimes that means understanding what you don't want to be." - David Levithan

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Savage Daughter | Wyndreth Berginsdottir

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It´s not a biologica or genetic concept but a socio-cultural one that has been developed by people through time. Race  has been used in order to antagonize the ones who are different. It served as the reason why multiple killings happened and keep happening.
It is important to recognize the discrimination, the inequality that accompanies these idea of categorizing people into different races. We have to challenge these harmful beliefs as a society.

"Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another's uniqueness." - Ola Joseph

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"Memories are the architecture of our identity" - Daniel J. Siegel
Given this quote we can consider memory as part of an individual or a group.
As individual people memory is what founds us, what allows us to grow, to learn from our mistakes, from our successes. Memory builds us and allows us to build, to improve what is wrong and maintain what is right.
As a society we have to have a memory so as not to repeat the greatest horrors of humanity and to remember what we did well to continue doing it.

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“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Story Girl

Our memory is what built us, is a part of our identity -as individuals or as a community-. It is our history, the important events in our life and also how we reacted to our problems and mistakes.

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For me what best describes identity are these quotes by Chuck Palahniuk one from Invisible Monsters and the other from Fight Club. “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
"You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet"

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I’d say identity is a perception we have/construct of ourselves; a narrative we tell to ourselves about ourselves. I think it’s not something (for the lack of a more precise word) fixed, static but rather it changes over time.

This perception of ourselves is highly influenced by our life experiences, the culture in which we are immersed, both at a macro and micro level (this involves nationality, language and religion as well as family and smaller communities), our interests, beliefs, values and the perspectives we have about life and the world.

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“Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war. And until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war.”
- Popularized by Bob Marley in the song War”
― Haile Selassie I, Selected Speeches

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To me, identity is the set of properties and characteristics that define a person and exclude them from others. So, it includes one´s preferences and not only the positive qualities and but also the negative ones. Although I believe a considerable part of it comes "biologically", it is true that  it´s also influenced by the different interactions or contact that a person has had in their entire life, and the way they have been educated.

Also, in a broader sense the concept of identity gives a person the feeling of belonging to a group of people that has been through the same.

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“Memory is identity....You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death.”

Julian Barnes, Nothing to Be Frightened Of

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I think identity is a behaviour we build every day. It has to do with how we feel being ourselves and relating to the world. Identity allow us to be visible to people and viceversa. Moreover, it is what give us the possibility to achieve that feeling of belonging which is constantly changing depending on what surround us.

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It´s the concept society has created in order to name the certain groups of people that have a common sense of belonging and, in most of the cases, share similar physical features. This concept has been (and still is) a popular theme to which people both fight for and unfortunately, make fun of.

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My opinion about race is perfectly reflected by this Maya Angelou`s quote.

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Memory represents our whole life, with memory we keep the construction of who we are and what we did since we develop that ability.

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I would define memory as an essential characteristic we all have as humans, that helps us to not trip over the same stone twice in all the different dimentions of our life: from not doing something that didn´t work for us before, to protecting our freedom, as we know what it is to lose it. Also, it´s a crucial factor that influences our identity.

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In my view, identity is the set of features or characteristics that make you your true self. Not only your personality or the way you present yourself to the world, but your desires, fears, beliefs, the traces of the way you were raised, and everything that conditions the way you think, speak and act in society.

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For me, the importance of memory is in acknowledging the way in which some events in history affected people, even when we aren’t included in the group that suffered the consequences of said event, to avoid repeating the same mistakes as a society.

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Identity includes characteristics, beliefs, and values (which depend on a social, cultural, and historical context) that define how people perceive themselves, both as individuals and as groups. Identity can end up being a source of empowerment or oppression, depending certain group is seen.
We are born with a created identity as we are told how to act and think while we're young. But as time passes by and we grow up, we start to construct our identity based in our own thoughts and feelings.

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Race is a complex concept that has been shaped by historical, social, cultural, and political forces. It'ss a social construct, used to categorize people based on physical characteristics such as skin color, hair texture, and facial features. However, race is not just about biology or genetics; it is also about power, privilege, and inequality. It has been used to create divisions between people. Ultimately, the concept of race is a reflection of the ways in which humans organize and understand differences.

There have been, and still are, many groups of people who discriminate other people for looking "different" and feel superior because of that. But luckily, this concept has evolved and nowadays people can be proud of their race instead of feeling frightened or oppressed because of being the way they are.

Below, I'll leave two quotes of a book I had to read in order to sit for a final exam, Age of Iron by Coetzee, which is about the apartheid, and which had a huge impact on me:

"Now that child is buried and we walk upon him. Let me tell you, when I walk upon this land, this South Africa, I have a gathering feeling of walking upon black faces. They are dead but their spirit has not left them." (3.329)

After all of the atrocities she witnesses being committed towards her black neighbors, Mrs. Curren can't help but feel that all of the black people before them must have met horrific ends, too. What's interesting about this moment is that she seems to be making a statement about how if whites are really at the top of the heap, it's because they've actively held down the black people of South Africa for so long.

"I have not seen black people in their death before, Mr. Vercueil. They are dying all the time, I know, but always somewhere else. The people I have seen die have been white and have died in bed, growing rather dry and light there, rather papery, rather airy." (3.324)

Mrs. Curren starts to understand a huge discrepancy between the lives that whites in South Africa lead and the lives that blacks are forced into. She realizes that people of her race aren't subjected to the same kinds of violent deaths, which is really eye opening for her.

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Memory is a fundamental aspect of human experience that involves the ability to retain information about past events and experiences. It shapes our identity and influences our behavior. The concept depends on various influences, including emotions, biases, and social contexts. Memory is a fundamental component of human consciousness and is essential for people to be able to live in a community.

Memory helps us remember all the rights and, especially , the wrongs of society, in order not to do them ever again, and to live peacefully.

I think the following quotes perfectly describes the concept of memory:

“Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.”

"Without memory, there is no healing."

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“Humans, not places, make memories.” by Ama Aita Aidoo, Ghanaian writer.

For me, the word "Memory” evokes not only memories of my childhood but also of the historical events of my own country. Even though I didn’t go through them myself, we, as citizens of the same country, have grown up listening to heart-breaking anecdotes of past events that occurred in and affected our country.

Our collective memory allows us not to forget those times but to keep them present as a reminder of our pain and how we were able to overcome it, and also of our mistakes and how we learned from them so as not to let them take place ever again.

Each country, group or even a family has its own collective memory that carries its history, which affects the development of the identity of its citizens/members and their individual memory as well.

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For me, Identity is what you are, what represents you, or the way you perceive yourself. It could be your roots, your gender, your sexuality, among others things.

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It is a term created with the purpose of classifying people depending on the colour of their skin or any other characteristic as their ethnicit. This term is applied for showing a hierarchical, and categorizing humans.

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"The very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.” – Toni Morrison

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What is Identity?
I think there isn’t a correct answer for that question. But I would define it as what it make us humans, one of our the most characteristic feature. I believe that we build our identity everyday as we socialiaze and interact with other people. The connection we form with the rest of the world and ourselves is what we can call identity. Those beliefs, customs, opinions, cultures, heritages englobes our identity and what we choose (or not) to make those features part of our life.
Furthermore, I wouldn’t say that Identify is only an inside procesa we do ourselves due to our relatioship with the world might affect everday.

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Memory is an esential part for our identity. Base on our memories we will later construct our beliefs, opinions, basically who we are. Besides, memory is the main reason why our society do not make the same mistakes other humans made in the past. As far as I concern, Identity and memory are related in many aspects because one depends on the other.

“We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.”

Jorge Luis Borges

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Race is a concept that the human kind created years ago in order to “classify” the different physical features from groups of people. I believe they came up with this concept only to minoritized certain groups meanwhile others would enjoy privileges just base on their physical appearance.

My opinion is perfectly shown by this quote:
“I believe in recognising every human being as a human being – neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration” Malcolm X

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To me, identity is about who we are as individuals and the things that make us unique. It encompasses our experiences, beliefs, and values, as well as our relationships and the way we see the world. I don't believe identity is static, I believe it changes with us as we grow, have new experiences, and learn new things. Identity is what makes us who we are, what makes us special, and defines us throughout our lives.

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Race is a social construct based on physical characteristics such as skin color or facial features, but it also encompasses cultural and historical factors such as ethnicity and ancestry. Unfortunately, throughout history, it has been used to create divisions and perpetrate discrimination. For centuries, race has been utilized as a pretext to assert dominance, torture, and kill people, particularly by white and European individuals. However, as we evolve, racism is gradually disappearing, yet it still present in our modern society. Hopefully, the world will continue to improve by promoting inclusivity and equity, so that we can become a better place for all.

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“The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.” said Viviene Westwood. With this in mind, we may be attached to the idea that Race is defined by physical traits such as skin or hair texture, but it also uncovers the idea of taxonomy that foments Racism, dividing people into categories that are prone to marginalize one another, instead of accepting the differences among each other.

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Though it’s not easy to define IDENTITY, I’m inclined to a psychological approach: it encompasses the memories, experiences, relationships, and values that create one’s sense of self. This amalgamation creates a steady sense of who one is over time, even as new facets are developed and incorporated into one’s identity.

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Memory can be either taken individually or collectively. Though, don't they define one another? I've decided to consider Collective Memory since Individual Memory can be defined by that of Identity. To me, Collective Memory is the narrative construed by History on decision-making and self-recognition along with the values shaped through generations.

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I would describe identity as the things you enjoy, take pride in, advocate for and want to be known for. That could be related to your sexuality, ideology, hobbies and more.

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"We know what we are, but not what we may be."
- William Shakespeare

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Memory is a fundamental part of our identity. It's how we remember important things that happened in our lifetime, how we learn from past mistakes or experiences, how we try to change things we think need to change. And also how we get to relieve some of our most precious memories.

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This is Ralph Yarl, a 16 year old boy who was killed this month in the US, for ringing the wrong doorbell. 

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Race and ethnicity don't show up at the genetic level, but the concept of race still forms the human experience.
Race is defined as “a category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits.”
Though race has no genetic basis, the social concept of race still shapes human experiences. Racial bias fuels social exclusion, discrimination and violence against people from certain social groups. In turn, racial prejudice confers social privilege to some and social and physical disparities to others, and is widely expressed in hierarchies that privilege people with white skin over people with darker skin colors.
Source: National Geographic

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Identity not only encompasses race but the thought of every unique individual being their own selves. It is a construction of what makes up the person's behaviour, personality and expression. Identity is also what the person chooses to be and present as, thus it can also be chosen.

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According the Cambridge dictionary, race is "one of the main groups to which people are often considered to belong, based on physical characteristics that they are perceived to share such as skin colour, eye shape, etc." However, such distinctions might end up affecting us negatively rather than positively, creating an effect of "them versus us". Thinking that we are all inherently the same, but with different skin colours, culture and religion, helps internalize the fact that we are all different in our similarities.

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Memory is the way we as indviduals have of avoiding the mistakes from the past; if we remember where we went wrong, what we could've done differently, things will change one way or the other. Statues, popular sites, names of different architectural features (schools, roads, buildings) remind people that something happened, and showcase the impact of said events in public memory. They recreate painful events to keep them alive and help us think about them.

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People are socially categorized by the “race” to which they are said to belong based on physical characteristics. The concept of race was once considered a biological/genetic feature but is now known to be a social construction. This imposed differentiation between people has given place to acts of hate that are backed up by policies, ideologies, norms, etc. It is a mechanism of social distinction that gives power and privileges to ones among others.

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“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.”  (It is claimed that Oscar Wilde said it but it has not been proven)

The identity of each person is unique. We have to embrace what makes us who we are, such us our likes, dislikes, beliefs, ideologies, memories, personalities, experiences, etc. We are the combination of all of those features put into one being.

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In my opinion, memory is a part of our own identity because we as a community have our history. Memory takes us back to important events of the past and remembering them prepares us in case of similar events occur to be ready to face them.

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“identity involves knowing who we are, knowing who others are, them knowing who we are, us knowing who they think we are and so on”

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The notion of race is a social construct designed to divide people into groups ranked as superior and inferior. The scientific consensus is that race, in this sense, has no biological basis – we are all one race, the human race. Racial identity, however, is very real. And, in a racialized society like the United States, everyone is assigned a racial identity whether they are aware of it or not.

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Memory is the term given to the structures and processes involved in the storage and subsequent retrieval of information.

Memory is essential to all our lives. Without a memory of the past, we cannot operate in the present or think about the future. We would not be able to remember what we did yesterday, what we have done today, or what we plan to do tomorrow.  Without memory, we could not learn anything.

Memory is involved in processing vast amounts of information. This information takes many different forms, e.g., images, sounds, or meaning.

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I think that identity has to do a lot with our interests. I think that the more we feel identified in terms of ideologies/interests in a place, the more comfortable we will with ourselves and the others.

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I think that identity has to do a lot with our interests. I think that the more we feel identified in terms of ideologies/interests in a place, the more comfortable we will with ourselves and the others.

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I think that the word race is used to classify people in order to their physical features, specially their skin color. This word had brought problems historically because black people has been and continues to be the most discriminated and ignored ones. This song talks about it.

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I think that the word race is used to classify people in order to their physical features, specially their skin color. This word had brought problems historically because black people has been and continues to be the most discriminated and ignored ones. This song talks about it.

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Michael Jackson - They Don’t Care About Us (Brazil Version) (Official Video)

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I'd define identity as the special features that shape who we are: not only our personalities but our ideologies, morality, experience and such. Identity is what makes us different from one another. Although at the same time, it helps us to develop a sense of belonging with those who are similar to us.

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The concept "race" has been used to classify (or rather, dissociate) people according to their physical similarities and skin colour. Nowadays, it has been replaced by "ethnicity": a word that incorporates both physical characteristics and socio-cultural experiences. This much needed change was able to recognize our differences as cultural groups rather than just a taxonomic grouping.

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“Algunas personas piensan que de las cosas malas y tristes es mejor olvidarse.
Otras personas creemos que recordar es bueno; que hay cosas malas y tristes que no van a volver a suceder precisamente por eso, porque nos acordamos de ellas,
porque no las echamos fuera de nuestra memoria”. (Graciela Montes. El golpe y los chicos)
Memory is simply defined as the act of remembering something from the past. That said, in our country memory is connected with the last dictatorship and democracy: we Argentinians remember the years when our freedom (both national and individual) was wrongfully deprived.

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Identity encompasses the values that people possess and that determine their choices. Identity evolves throughout a person's life.

Identity construction involves three important tasks: discovering and developing one's potential, choosing one's purpose in life, and finding ways to exercise that potential and purpose. Identity is also influenced by parents and peers in childhood and by experiences in adolescence.

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Race is a social construct used to divide people into groups, usually based on physical appearance, social factors and cultural background. It functions as a hierarchical system for grouping people and creates racial classifications to identify, distinguish, and exclude certain groups in nations, regions, and the world.

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Memory refers to the psychological processes of acquiring, storing, retaining and later recalling information.
Human memory includes the ability to retain and recall information. However, sometimes people forget something or remember it incorrectly. In other cases, the information is not even stored correctly.

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Idendity understood as something social. 

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Idendity understood as something social. 

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Identity is the perception we have of ourselves and it is build through many aspects of life includng gender, sexuality, nationality, personality, language, etc.

Someone’s social identity is then seen as the outcome of  three processes (social categorization, social comparison, and social identification). Social identity can be defined as an individual’s knowledge of belonging to certain social groups, together with some emotional and valuational significance of that group membership.
Thus, while one’s personal identity refers to self-knowledge associated with unique individual attributes, people’s social identity indicates who they are in terms of the groups to which they belong.

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I believe that our identity is built by the choices we make through life and the experiences that we have. Both of them mold our unique way of being into an individual with their own perception of life, with their own way of feeling and with their own way of thinking.
"Identity is not inherent. It is shape by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity". Dorothy West.

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Well, when I think in the concept of 'race'  it comes to my mind this kind of dichotomy between owning race as part of your culture, your roots, your past, present and future. Being part of who you are and  thus your identity.
Then, it comes the other part. This idea of 'race' as a label from those who wanted to impose 'race supremacy' throughout history. Saying what is better and what is not just because it is different.

I'll leave you all with a poem that, although it is in Spanish, fascinated me.

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Victoria Santa Cruz | Me Gritaron Negra (Afro Perú) | Music MGP

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From my point of view, memory is the recollection of our past experiences and the experiences of the past, not only ours but others too.

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My favourite actress (Danai Gurira) is an activist that fights for black woman rights and their identities

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The identity is a right that all humans must have, since is what we are; our past experiences, beliefs, expressions, opinions, likes and personalities, and how those things make us what we are at the present to distinguish us from others.

The identity is a construction of ourselves.

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Memory is an important part of our lives; remembering what has been learned and keep it in our minds to construct our beliefs and opinions.

Personally, I think that learning about global histories (such as Second World War) is fundamental since we build a new way of thinking what has happened many years ago, to remember it in the present and pray that it must not happen again.

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"There is, in sanest hours, a consciousness, a thought that rises, independent, lifted out from all else, calm, like the stars, shining eternal. This is the thought of identity — yours for you, whoever you are, as mine for me. Miracle of miracles, beyond statement, most spiritual and vaguest of earth’s dreams, yet hardest basic fact, and only entrance to all facts. In such devout hours, in the midst of the significant wonders of heaven and earth, (significant only because of the Me in the centre,) creeds, conventions, fall away and become of no account before this simple idea. Under the luminousness of real vision, it alone takes possession, takes value. Like the shadowy dwarf in the fable, once liberated and look’d upon, it expands over the whole earth, and spreads to the roof of heaven.

The quality of being, in the object’s self, according to its own central idea and purpose, and of growing therefrom and thereto — not criticism by other standards, and adjustments thereto — is the lesson of Nature."

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"Be a voice, not an echo"
Karla Lim.
I think this quote gives an insight of what identity means for some people.
It means trying to be oneself. Of course, "that" self is never a hundred percent ours, the same way our personality never represents ourselves a hundred percent; but, the construction of a person that rethinks already thought thought and tries to find things and characteristics that make one, one.

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For me identity is the group of features that make the personality of a person, based on things like gender, religion, race and sexual orientation. What makes us feel comfortable with ourselves, what makes us believe we belong to a group.

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Race is a terminology that comes from Biology studies. In those terms, it would be the setting of physical features that people inherit. At the same time, in the Social Science field it would be related to history and how different races were or are treated in society just based on genetics, for example how they were treated because of their skin tone.

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The concept of memory is about respecting the history of a culture, to embrace it in order to understand it nowadays and necessarily to not repeat mistakes. In Argentina that concept ir related to military dictatorship who kidnapped and tortured citizens who did not shared the same political beliefs as the dictatorships did, in simple terms, people were killed for thinking differently. So, nowadays we embrace democracy by remembering that things were not always this way.

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