The first time I had heard of someone identifying as a race or ethnicity that they were not born with was in 2017 on a little blue bird app called Twitter. Someone had uploaded a video of a man with white skin and blue eyes and very evidently not Filipino
Tag: identity
In our current century of the self, our propensity to express ourselves with manufactured identities is nothing short of ironic. In fact, In The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Goffman summarizes this phenomenon, “assum[ing] that when an individual appears before others he will have many motives for trying to