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Class 04 Homework on Your Identity and Culture is due on Tuesday at 1 pm, the day before Class 05. Please take 3-4 pages of notes on two readings or viewings from the offerings below, using keywords and summaries as much as possible. Whenever you can, especially when using “direct quotations,” note the page and paragraph number to help you know where you got the information. These actions will also help you avoid plagiarism.

Please edit the information in each reading or viewing according to the example below as accurately as possible. I can help edit. Here is the list of all the readings and viewings for Cycle 1. Feel free to find your own identity readings or viewings as well, but please share the source URL so I can share it with the class.

Please add your reflections on how these readings and viewings are connected with you! Here are the question prompts:

What connections do you draw between the message in these readings and viewings and your own life? How is this reading or talk connected to your identity? Please find and note specific examples.

This homework is due by Sunday at Midnight before Class 05.

Sample of Note-Taking Related to Identity 1 (From our Class!)

Palandurkar, J. (2020, October 6). Importance of self-identity and its benefits. Medium.

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Sample of Note-Taking Related to Identity 2 (From our Class!)

Lyon. M. (2016, May 16). Is your identity given or created [Video]? TedXExeterU.

Homework References for IBIL Cycle 1: Identity

Me (Self)

Adkins, A. (2015, August 12). Who am I? A philosophical inquiry [Video]. TED Ed.

Ferrera, A. (2021, July 10). Your identity is your superpower [Video]. TED.

Health Assured Team. (2022, May 20). Building a healthy self-identity. Wisdom Wellbeing. https://www.healthassured.org/blog/building-a-healthy-self-identity

Palandurkar, J. (2020, October 6). Importance of self-identity and its benefits. Medium. https://medium.com/@jpalandurkar2001/importance-of-self-identity-and-its-benefits-1633763926c3

Psychology Today Staff. (2025). Identity. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/identity

Reilly, E. (2024, December 5). Performing Identity: Exploring self-expression in Japan. Medium. https://medium.com/texas-immersive/performing-identity-exploring-self-expression-in-japan-b93edf92f525

Wallace, K. (2021, May 18). You are a network: You cannot be reduced to a body, a mind, or a particular social role. An emerging theory of selfhood gets this complexity. AEON. https://aeon.co/essays/the-self-is-not-singular-but-a-fluid-network-of-identities

Both

Ahluwalia, J. (2020, August 14). Both not half: How language shapes identity [Video]. TEDxChandigarh.

Japan Documented. (2024, December 26). A Japanese-American’s perspective on culture gaps, identity and beauty standards [Video]. Japan Documented.

Matsumoto, T. (2021, November 25). New film “whole looks at daily struggles of mixed-race Japanese. Nippon.com. https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/c030148/

Thompson-Hernadez, W. (2019, February 20). Chicano subculture in Japan [Video]. Youtube. The New York Times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8bMLcCxxAA&t=6s

All

Lyon. M. (2016, May 16). Is your identity given or created [Video]? TedXExeterU.

Nimenya, S. (2016, December 24). We are not all that different: Race and culture identity [Video]. TEDxSnolsleLibraries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QuAok_Xiyg

Sechrest-Ehrhardt, L. (2023, August, 25). Social identity and social interaction [Video]. TedxGeorgeMasonU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29C3ts4YxAA

Wallace, K. (2021, May 18). You are a network: You cannot be reduced to a body, a mind, or a particular social role. An emerging theory of selfhood gets this complexity. AEON. https://aeon.co/essays/the-self-is-not-singular-but-a-fluid-network-of-identities

Note: These are the readings and viewings to use for your homework for this course. You can use others’ related content, but please email me the URL and include it in this document so I can format it and share it with other students, as they may want to read it.