Diversity of Identity

 

Each person has their own identity. There are many different way to define identity itself, from the simple thing likes “Who is me?” until the complex things, such as the philosophy and culture. In my opinion, identity is the entity things which represent me. Identity it is about me and my own perspective toward others.

            I am Upit Sofyani, I am a girl, I am student, I am a Muslim, and I am a Sundanese and Javanese people. So, what is distinguishes between me with someone else? As a girl, physically I have the same characteristic of my body but I have different dispositions with the other girl. I think, all of us have different characteristics and each person has the uniqueness identity. I am a Muslim, even we have the same God and same way to pray. However, we have the differences among the other Muslim, such as we have the different level of our piety. Then, my descent is Javenese because my father comes from Solo but I cannot speak Javanese and I did not know well about the Javanese culture and Javanese custom. Whereas, my mother come from Bogor and I was born and grow up in Bogor. I can speak and understand the Sundanese language and also I know the custom and culture of Sundanese. My name Upit also represent of name of sinden from Sunda.

            In socializing we find many people with different identity. How do we deal with those differences? Some of people think the differences just make confuse and conflict, even they should be equate their perspective. I disagree with that because we can learn how to appreciate the differences, from that we could more respect each other, we can add some knowledge about the other ethnics, languages, religions, cultures, etc.

I think, I can socialize with the others who have different identity with me. From that, I can learned and know more about characteristics from the other identity. We can equate those differences if we open our mind, we can appreciate to the other people, ethnics, languages, religions, etc. It is depends to ourselves, we cannot judge or stereotype to something because we do not know the truth. Aphorism said “The difference is beautiful”. We can make it beautiful if we can unify the diversity of identity. Like a rainbow, they have different colors and characteristics but they combine the color thus create a unified harmony in colors. If we can be mutual respect, we can create the beautiful differences.

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