Cultural heritage

—Is it worthwhile to fight for the preservation of one’s cultural heritage (traditions, customs, language, social values...)?

—Which part of your experience could be useful for connecting with people from a different background and make communication easier?

Changes in Identity (the face)

People can change their identities in different ways for many reasons. Often, someone will change his or her identity to fit into a group. People may also change their identity to stand out of a group, or to prove that they are not something. This almost always leads them to another group that they also must conform to in some way.

On a different note, some people will change their physical appearance either to feel more confident, or to change the way they are perceived. This often happens in the form of plastic surgery. In particular, people who are always being looked at are pressured to look perfect, so they change details of their faces and bodies that they think are flawed.

Celebrities and common people alike also wear makeup--or, in the case of men, grow beards--to change or hide the part of their identity that is their face. Every circumstance is different in this situation; sometimes makeup enhances the natural features of the face, and sometimes it hides them. The same is true for beards.
Overall, many people will take certain measures to  change their face in order to present themselves differently. This can effectively change your identity in affecting the way you are seen by others and the way you see yourself.

Changes in identity

In the book “in the name of identities”, the author says that our identities growth and change with our age. Our identities don't stay same all the time. It changes. Different people may have different changes because of the experiences.

For me the most significant changes in my identities are because of changing places. I left my home country when I was young; I started living by myself in a foreign county after I left. I feel that my identities have changed because of that. I used to stay up all night just try to finish my homework. Now homework costs less than one hour to finish. I use to go to temple every weekend just because my mom asks me to. Now I sing the holly song because I feel that I should do. All of those changes because of I changed the place I live. I started be proud of my religion when I saw everyone in American does. My identities have changed. 

 I used to ride a bike to school, now I drive to school

I used to eat Chinese food everyday, now I always eat fastfood.

 I used to write in Chinese all the time, now I'm in the ESL class and try to learn wirte in English.

                                                                          likezekeem

                                                                                     

CHANGES identity......?

I think  if people changes indentity , frist they need changes activity in they's life .Maybe They want a better life or they want different , special with the other people, so they changes indentity.Indentity is very importan in our life, if you changes indentity as well you changes all everything in your life, so you need think carefully about it when you want a new life .....It's depends on you?. I think be alaways yourself is a best......What do you thik abou it .......?

Change in Identity

People change their identity because they feel like their life in the present could be better if they either hide a part of themselves,or only show a small portion of themselves. People can have different identities that they share with different people. For example when  a person is surfing the web or is online, they might act differently then they would if they were in person. They do this for many reasons. One of them is that they could be feeling left out or alone and they feel more comfortable on the computer than with a person. Another could be that they are just in a mood of expressing how they feel, and everyone knows that the best place to broadcast how you feel is over the Internet.

Those people that change their identity, might not like what they forced them self to become, and because of this they might want to constantly keep changing who they are. Of course it doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing, because it is good way for people to experience new ways of life, and be familiar with them. But if a person were to be changing their identities for the reason of not feeling wanted, abandoned, hopeless, or even abused then it would be better for them to try and change the situation without changing who they are.

(examples of people who have changed their identities) : http://councilofexmuslims.com/index.php?topic=9562.0 this link will take you there....

Changes in Identity Response Vicki 2013

During the Holocaust, people were being prosecuted for a part of their identity, their religion. This was a time where either you embraced your Jewish faith and died for your faith or you hid that part of your identity and saved your life. People of faith would obviously want to sacrifice their lives for their religion. But on second thought, one needs to think of all that you would be leaving behind. Many people didn't even have a choice. They were just ripped out of their homes and sent to concentration camps.
I know a story about a man who gave up his life to save someone else during the Holocaust. His name was Maximilian Kolbe. He was sent to Auschwitz, where he met a man and his family. This man was sentenced to execution. Maximilian realized that this man had more to lose than he did; therefore, he went to where the man was going to be executed, pretended to be him, and died. This noble act earned him the name, St. Maximilian Kolbe. The church I go to is named after him, as an honor to his sacrifice.
St. Max had a big heart. He not only embraced his religion, but he gave up his life when he really had no need to. He could have lived. But he knew the other man would be leaving a whole family behind.
-Victoria Cardenas

Changes in Identities

There are many ways in which people change identities. Most people change their identities because they feel if others know of a part of their identity they might hurt the individual. They can also have changes in their identity by experiencing things that transform their perspective of their life. Simple things such as reading an influential book or going to a different restaurant can change the person's identity.

Another example of changes in identity is the witness protection program, where the people who have witnessed a crime and have given leads for cops have to be protected so that the criminal or the gang that they testified against doesn't try to harm them. During the witness protection program they usually have to change their name, lie about their date of birth, and hide or change many aspects of their life.

Victims of stalking also change their identity totally so that the stalker can't locate them. One person, Lisa, changed her name, contact details, and other aspects of her life. She moved from America to Southeast Asia and sucessfully lost the stalker.

During wars or immense prosecution civilians might hide part of their identity so they aren't prosecuted and targeted by the prosecutors. An example is during the Holocaust many people claimed that they were Christans and had no Jewish affiliations whatsoever. The reasons for this are obvious because if they admitted to being Jewish Hitler would have tortured and killed them.

People have been known to change their identity to hide from payments or debts. Many people change their identity so tax collectors and loan companies can't charge them and take their money.

Even when a person's life isn't in danger they may still change parts or all of their identity for  other reasons. One of them is when someone falls in love. When somebody falls in love with someone else who has a very different lifestyle, the person might try to change his/her life and identity to appeal more to his/her crush.

But in the end I think it is nearly impossible to change your identity. Even if you change your name, lifestyle, and interests the old aspects of your identity will still be there, in your subconcious, affecting you in minute and almost invisible ways. You can never take things away from your identity, only add things.

Sources:
http://www.helium.com/items/720422-why-do-people-seem-to-lose-their-identity-when-they-get-married
http://changeidentity.net/?p=19

-SM

Changes in Identity

If people feel that their identity is being threatened in their environment, then they are likely to hide it or stand up for that aspect of their identity. For example, if someone of a certain religion lives in a place where that religion is not tolerated, then they are going to feel that it's necessary to conceal that religious aspect in order to not have trouble with others. They are still the same person, except now they must decide to loose that part of their identity or keep it significant. If they choose to keep it significant, then it will become a super important part of their identity because they are going to defend it.
Like in the Holocaust, people were forced to change their lifestyle and move to the concentration camps were they were not able to do the same things that they were able to do before the war. I can imagine that this gave them resentment for their faith because it had corrupted their lives. Once they were in concentration camps, their identity had changed because they weren't allowed to be Jewish freely.
-Catherine

Changes in identity

Group members change their identity to correspond to various kinds of changes in their environment.  Can you think of some examples?