Prompt 21

1. In what ways do you “construct” your identity? In what ways do you “perform” in your daily life?

-You can construct your identity by finding out what is important in your life, like what makes your life meaningful; what it is you like to do, who you like to be with, places that are important to you, etc. Then figure out what order they go in, if they have any order, and this will begin to construct your identity. Even figuring out what isn't important to you helps to construct it.  In your daily life, you perform for other people, for yourself, and for no one. It could be pretending to be nice to someone even if you don't like them, telling yourself you think you're beautiful even if you don't believe it, or doing something just because you know it's the right thing to do, even if no one else knows about it.

2. Describe some ways in which your personal culture and social environments are “constructed”. 

-Personal culture and social environments are constructed by deciding who to be with, where to be, what you do, etc.  A personal culture and social environment could be influenced by who you are in class with, who you decide to hang out with outside of class and work, what your friends and family believe in, where you decide to go on weekends, if you decide to drink or do drugs, what you spend your free time doing, etc.

3. Describe some ways in which your physical environment/space is “constructed”.

-For instance, in your room/house/apt., you decide where to put things, therefore you are constructing your space. Also in areas where you don't choose to put things, you can picture different things about your surroundings. By using your imagination, you can construct a space without physically changing it.

4. In your daily life, what would you consider to be “real” and what would you consider to be “constructed/fabricated”?
-In some ways, everything is real, but in other ways everything is constructed. You would think that the people you interact with are real, because they physically are, however they might be constructing a front to make you not see who they really are, or how they are really feeling.  The physical things around you are real, but as I said before, they may have been constructed the way they are (as well as everything being made some how). Your beliefs are real to you, because it's what you believe, however you are the one that decided to believe certain things, so you construct them in your mind.