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Family is the primary agent of socialization and that rings especially true for me. I have learned who I am and who I want to be through my parents. They have taught me kindness, empathy, hard work, determination and over all how to act like a respectable person within society

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Right out of high school I went to Trent University created a whole life there for two years. I then dropped out and had to move back in with my parents. This caused me to have to resocialize myself and adapt back to the norms and my old role of living with my parents.

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Ever since I was a little kid I would see my favourite pop stars (Hanna Montana obvi) and I knew I needed to be on that stage. This need led me to putting shows on for my family when I was younger, then it led to (classical) singing lessons, being in the music atmosphere then opportunities to preform for real. Through the media and what I saw, I discovered my love for preforming and that led me into groups with musical people who influenced me and my music journey and my overall personal journey.

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I grew up in a really strict Baptist Christian church so a lot of my early socialization came from the church. This in a lot of ways was very harmful for me because it taught me morals and rules based off the bible. a lot of  what i was taught was harmful to groups of people in society and in adolescence, I had to undo this socialization and resocialize myself into mainstream society.

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I have worked at Starbucks for three years now and in a lot of was it has been a huge part of my socialization. I worked my way up to a supervisor and honestly mastered a lot of the work so it has taught me leadership skills, how to lead and direct a group of people and how to act in a professional manner. It’s allowed me to socialize myself as a professional being within society

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Music and preforming plays a big part of my identity and my socialization. So here’s a lil example