Question

In the context of the text, can you change your identity? How important is a person's heritage to their identity? Do you think your heritage is something you can control or alter? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Answer:

Nobody can change their identity. The importance of someone's heritage is very important because that way he or she can know the culture in which he or she was born to decide to follow it or choose other ideals. You can't control heritage, but you can decide who to be.

Explanation:

The perspective to view these answers is a developmental one. Thus, we can't change the place where we come from, but if we find it is not appropriate we can decide to learn another environment's ideals and follow them instead of the ones that belong to the place we were born. That is the reason why we can't change our heritage and the importance of it. We can't control the place we are born, but we can control whom we want to be. Someone who follows the culture our caretakers gave us, or the culture we find more suitable for us.