What is more important to your identity? Your Social Group, Nationality, Gender or Ethnicity?

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What is more important to your identity? Youre Social Group, Nationality, Gender or Ethnicity?

Nationality, membership of nation, being national.

Gender, grammatical classification (or one of classes) roughly corresponding to            two sexes and sexless ness.

Social, of society or its organization, concerned with mutual relations of (classes of)                 human being, living in communities, gregarious, unfitted for solitary life.

Ethnic, of group of mankind having common national or cultural tradition; (of          cloths          etc.) resembling those of an ethnic group.

The reason why I started this essay with the four dictionary definitions is because I wanted to show how important yet so different each of these elements each could be on ones life.

Nationality is very important to me; I am on my passport British, however unless I'm applying for a job then I tell people that I am a Turkish Cypriot and a proud one at that.

The reason I write that I am British when applying for a job is that, in my opinion makes life easier upon myself the reason I say this is that in my own experience, I have found that in higher managerial positions you will find someone British for instance, I work for Tesco and have done so for four years, during this time I have only ever seen two black managers and one Asian manager and we always seem to have a lot of managers working for the store, so when you think that not even a quarter of the managers are Non-British it’s amazing.

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I’m Turkish Cypriot and proud the biggest way of describing how much is by referring to football, if I was a great footballer and was a good enough standard to represent my/a country and was asked by both turkey and England, regardless of how brilliant England were, and how poor Turkey were I would opt to play for Turkey, my father is Turkish while my mother is Turkish-Cypriot. I’m a Turkish Cypriot just because I was born in England doesn’t make me English or British when I see (in newspapers/television) that we (English/British) did this (achievements in sport etc) ...

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