•Check whether it is the same as others view you

•Do you have multiple identities in your life?

• What are the factors that shape those identity?

•How do you negotiate between self and the otherness?

Do you have multiple identities in your life?
- Yes, I will portray myself differently according to different situations. For an instance, I will mind my words when I am having a consultation with lecturer while I will be very outspoken when I am having a conversation with my friends.

What are the factors that shape those identities?
- The factors that shape my identities include the people around me as well as the social circumstances.

How do you negotiate between self and the otherness?
- For me, my personal identity and collective identity is somehow related. However, I will still negotiate between my own self and the otherness through interaction with other people. This is because people will know more about me if I interact more with them and we will have a connection with each other. 

Check whether it is the same as others view you
- I don't know, is it?

Do you have multiple identities in your life?
- Yes! I am a friend, a sister, a daughter, a writer, an artist, a gamer, a student, and so many other things.

What are the factors that shape those identity?
- My surroundings, the people around me, and what I am currently engaged in at the moment.

How do you negotiate between self and the otherness?
- I am in fact trying to make them in line with each other, and doing so requires a lot of courage and wise decision-making. I have to make my opinions and myself known, yet at the same time I have to ensure that I am aware of my surroundings and what is required of me. This is a hard quest indeed, but I believe it can be done.

•Check whether it is the same as others view you
-Yes, probably sometimes

•Do you have multiple identities in your life?
-Yes. I am a daughter, sister, student, teacher-to-be, girlfriend, friend, Instagram user, roommate, housemate, soulmate, leader, problem-solver, traveler, dreamer and till infinity

• What are the factors that shape those identity?
I think it much related to my responsibility in that particular relationship. For instance, when I am a daughter, I will be obedient and behave well to make my parent proud. When I am a sister, I will show my siblings a good example to learn and always be there listening and helping for them. When I am a teacher-to-be, I will train myself to be as professional as I can to portray my image as an English teacher.

•How do you negotiate between self and the otherness?
I think there is not much contrast between the identity of self and otherness, just that I have to be smart enough to switch my identity when I meet different kind of people so that I will make less troubles in my life. For example, say appropriate words in certain occasion and take appropriate actions when necessary.

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Is it the same as others view me?
Majority of people said yes. Some people said no because of my inability to confront people straight to their face when I’m upset with any of their actions. This is quite accurate because I sometimes do not want to jeopardize my relationship with them by expressing my anger. 

Do I have multiple identities in my life?
Definitely yes. My identities include: 

1)    Daughter and sister

2)    Pre-service teacher

3)    Social media user

4)    Housemate

5)    Friend (close-friend and acquaintance)

6)    Malaysian citizen

Factors that shape those identity?
My identity changes depending on the situation and the circle of people I am with at the moment. Another factors include my attitude about the situation and my goal getting into certain social relationship. 

How do I negotiate between self and the otherness?
Personally, I negotiate between self and otherness by always keeping in mind that every single soul in the world has feelings and emotions whenever I’m interacting o building social interaction with them. I adapt my personal identity with the current situation in order to avoid any corruption of relationship.  

- A serious person

 

2. Check whether it is the same as others view you :

- Some agreed, some did not. Those who did not agree said that I am a matured person instead of  serious.

 

3. Do you have multiple identities in your life :

-Yes I have. I am a daughter, the oldest sister, a best friend, a friend, a roommate, a housemate, a coursemate, a student. Besides, I am a very talkative,annoying and fun around the people who are very close to me. For example, around my family and my best friend. 

 

4. What are the factors that shape those identity:

- The factors are the relationship that I have with that particular person. Besides, the surrounding also affect how I portray myself. For instance, if I am in public, I would most probably behave myself even though when I am with my family. 

 

5. How do you negotiate between self and otherness:

 

- I would embrace my true self but somehow I will still make sure that the current situation approve me to be one. I would consider the surroundings and choose which identity that is the most suitable to the current situation.

-      A Serious person.

 

-      Yes, it is. 

 

-      Yes, of course I do. I’m a daughter, sister, student, teacher, friend, enemy and many more. As I mentioned earlier, I’m a serious person but I can also be jovial.

 

-      The factors that shape those identities are mainly in terms of responsibility, relationship and situations. For instance, when I have assignments I have to be a serious person and when I’m spending time with close friends I can be carefree this is because of the sense of responsibility. Where else, my other identities like sister, daughter, friend or enemy depends on my relationship with the other person, for example I’m a daughter to my parents but a sister to my siblings. Lastly for student and teacher it depends on the situation, when I’m in the university I’m a student but when I work part time or do my PPG, I’ll be a teacher.

-      I believe I have learnt to adapt to the different situations and change my identity at all times so that I will be able to cope with the challenges of life. One can never be the same the entire time, if so then you will face a lot of problems. Although I might have one true identity, I think I must constantly change identities for the comfort of others. 

- Roommate/Housemate

- Teacher in sunday school/Helper
- Class representative
- Selangor-ian/Malaysian voter

What are the factors that shape those identity?
I would said :
- Surrounding/Environment/People around me/Society
- Family upbringing and also cultural background/Religion teaching
- Peer pressure/The bunch of buddies i mingle around with

How do you negotiate between self and the otherness?
To be honest, i felt that basically i have not much differ between self and otherness. I always portray the real me with people around me and also the ones i have just met. This is because i am a very socialise, easy going and happy go lucky girl. But not to forget, during formal situations like meeting lecturer for consultation or attend a formal ceremony, i will be more ‘Stablelize’, but other than these scenario, i will be who i am inside out.

Thanks for reading and make it a great week ahead peeps!

*Think of your own personal identity 

- Straight forward 

 

*Check whether it is the same as others view you 

- I think yes 

*Do you have multiple identities in your life? 

- Yes, I do have multiplte identities in my life and they are a daughter, a sister, a friend, a roommate, coursemate, housemate, student and girlfriend. 

*What are the factors that shape those identity? 

- Family factor 

- The relationship with people                   - Surrounding environments 

- The way I was brought up 

- Personal rules and interests 

 

*How do you negotiate between self and the otherness? 

-This depends on the situations I am in. It is difficult to always maintain an identity to everyone or in every situation. I think that I have learnt to adapt myself and choose to show my identity based on the situations. For example, I cannot be too straight forward to a sensitive person as it might hurt them. This shows that I have to be aware of my surroundings and the people that I am talking to. It is quite hard to not to be able to portray the identity that you want to but I know that I have to be wise and matured according to the situations.  

- Fitness Diva

 

Check whether it is the same as others view you 

- A majority agree that I enjoy exercising 
 
 

Do you have multiple identities in your life? 

- Yes, I do have multiple identities in my life. To some people I’m quiet and to others I’m quite talkative. My multiple identities include being a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a friend, a teammate, course mate, and also a girlfriend. 

What are the factors that shape those identity? 

-how well I know the person

-the situation/ environment

-the purpose of the interaction 

 

How do you negotiate between self and the otherness? 

-I realised, I will automatically change my identity the minute I am around different types of people. As I had mentioned earlier, to some I may come off as quiet and reserved, while to others I talk and goof around a lot. It depends on the purpose of interaction. In class, I am reserved as I enjoy thinking to myself over the things I have learnt. Whereas, when I’m outside of the class, I can easily start any random conversation with anyone. From giving advice to discussing personal matters. 

•Check whether it is the same as
 others view you
-I am not sure about it

•Do you have multiple identities in your life?
Yes, I do have multiple identities in my life. For example, I'm a daughter, a sister, a housemate and roommate, an athlete and a classmate.

• What are the factors that shape those identity?
The factors that shape those identity is my background, my social group and my surrounding.

•How do you negotiate between self and the otherness?
I will behave myself differently according to the different situation that I am in but I still being my self. For example, when I am with my kayak team, I would behave a little bit aggressive than I always do with my classmates because the people in that team are behaving such a way.

-          Always elected as a class leader by classmates. (Since primary school)

 

•Check whether it is the same as others view you

-          A class leader

-          A Scout enthusiast

 

•Do you have multiple identities in your life?

-          Yes. 

o   The eldest between two siblings.

o   Son

o   Cousin

o   Muslim

o   UPSI TESL student (teacher-to-be)

o   School Alumni

o   Friend

o   Classmate

o   Roomate

o   Housemate

o   Ganurian (Terengganu - I was raised here)

o   Perakian (I was born here)

o   A Scout (member since 2006)

 

• What are the factors that shape those identities?

-          I was born in 1996 and my younger brother in 2002. I am the eldest sibling in my family. 

-          I am also was born as a Muslim

-          Currently I am an UPSI TESL Student which I have different interaction with students from TESL course and non-TESL coursemates. 

-          I approach other people and people approached me. I can easily make friends with them. Friend is also where we help each other out in need. 

-          Sometimes, I am with the same class with the non-TESL students, so I need to play a role as a classmate where I mingle with people. The same goes to my TESL classmates.

-          I am currently living in a residential college where there are six people in my house, and I am sharing a room with a person. These people are not the same background as me, but I need to be easily approached, and tolerate with my roomate and housemates throughout the semester. 

-          I was born in Taiping, Perak, 22 years ago. I speak Perak dialect with my fellow Perakians because at home, my family spoke this dialect. 

-          Meanwhile, I was raised in Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu. I was exposed with the culture of Terengganu, such as dialects, foods and even their environment.

-          As a Scout, I always renew and practice the laws and oaths of Scouting. 

 

•How do you negotiate between self and the otherness? 

-          In my point of view, I know when I should use this identity, when should I not use this identity. It depends on what situation that I am facing. There are also situations where I need to combine two or more of my identities.