All individuals vary whether it’s their personal appearance or personal opinions. However, the main thing that sets all individuals apart is their identity. Identity can be defined as the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. In the TED video the identity of people is discussed. The speaker, Bryan Stevenson, in this video discussed the role of identity in society and how in reverse society affects the identity of people. Bryan emphasized multiple times that poverty is one of the main causes for identities to changes as well as lead to crime rates to increase. Bryan suggested that building ones’ character from learning from the past one will one day be able to look past the determining factor of race. He believes that ethics also help play a role in identity by using ones’ truths, morals, and beige able to reconciliate to mold a better person. Also, having the characteristic of being courageous will help one look past the media and what has been instilled in them through segregation and history books one can change their identity for the better. It has been noted in poverty stricken areas the crime rate is extremely high. Bryan poses the question, is this due to biasness of whites and blacks, and the fact that many people believe the color of one’s skin is more superior than the identity underneath the skin. By creating a new identity for yourself you will be able to see things I a new light that you would have never seen before. All of the things speaker, Bryan Stevenson, talked about all relates back to one thing and that are that identity is associated with inequality. The inequality towards African Americans results in the ill punishment of them in the legal system. With Bryan’s personal experience working with adult and juvenile African Americans in the prison system he is able to speak accurately on how punishment is solely based on race. The TED video today showed that by changing our identities as well as perspectives on things, discrimination of African Americans as well as the flawed prison system can be changed.
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