Identity Communication
You will post one thread that is between 300- and 350-words APA FORMAT WITH 3 REFERENCES.
Schultze, Q. J. & Badzinski, D. M. (2015). An essential guide to interpersonal communication: Building great relationships with faith, skill, and virtue in the age of social media. Baker Academic. ISBN: 9781441248725
Petersen, J. C. (2022). Why don’t we listen better? Communicating and connecting in relationships (3rd ed.). Petersen Publications. ISBN: 9780979155987.
Schultze and Badzinski defined self-identity as the way we perceive ourselves and social identity as how others view us. Identity encompasses different roles and expectations regarding how to act in different social contexts. Discuss the concept of identity, drawing on the course literature. Analyze also the identity communication illustrated in each of the three video presentations in this module.
Communication Scenario I – What Is Identity of Self?
Hi, I’m Alia, new coworker. Oh. Started in this department? Yes, yes. They told me that you were gonna be coming. The only thing I’ve been told is that I was going to have a coworker name. How do you pronounce your name? Alia. Oh, Allah. Yeah. Well, wonderful. They told me that you were gonna be coming. I’m really excited about the seminar. Oh oh. Before they start the seminar, do you have any preference on what cubicle you’re going to sit in? No. Okay. Because I just got back from Germany on a business trip. I’m going to do a lot of traveling. I see a lot of different cultures, but they had me on this cubicle right next to the window, and the light would shine in and it would give me this awful headache. Plus, I’m really claustrophobic, so I was hoping that I would get the cubicle that’s over by the end by the hallway. No problem. Oh, perfect. I promise that’s the only thing that’s wrong with me. Everything else, I’m pretty easy to deal with. Great. All right. All right. Let me guess where you’re from. Okay. Okay. All right. Here we go. I’m really good at this game. Greece No Italy? Spain? No South America. Nope. Okay. I give up. I was born in Chicago and my parents are from Iraq. Oh well. I was born in Detroit and raised in Oregon, so. Hm. So you’re an American too? Absolutely. Although it’s really not that important to me. I mean, it’s just a title. Right. You know, I could have sworn you were from Greece. I have a best friend, she’s from Greece and you look just like her. So weird. Well, can I ask you a question? Sure. I don’t want to be a weird and probably a stupid question, but aren’t you supposed to wear a scarf? No, I’m actually Christian, you know, not all Muslims are Arabs. Are Muslims. And not all Muslims are Arabs. You know, although Muslim is a large, predominant religion in our country, there’s also a lot of Christians as well. Wow, that’s cool. I’m working with an Iraqi woman. Actually, an Iraqi American woman. Right, right. We that’s what I meant to say. I’m sorry I went off on that whole cultural thing. But, you know, it’s just nice to be able to work with someone who has a little bit of culture and who’s, you know, from a different background. Because I travel all the time, I travel everywhere and it’s just nice to have some of that culture here in the office. Still kind of in shock, You know, just coming back to the states from Germany. So I’m really glad that you’re here. Well, I’m glad. I just wondered if you could help me get onto the Internet so I can send a few E mails. Yeah, sure. Sorry I was talking so much. It’s okay. Well, first you need to go over to the Start button, right over here.
Communication Scenario II – Misunderstood
Hey, son, How you doing? I noticed you’ve been in here a lot. What’s that? A rough day. So, uh, said is girl. Oh, I can talk in three weeks. I know. Honestly, never want to get your phone for me, whatever. He watching man get my wife three. What are you gonna do? Hit me. What are you using? Your Newman. Colin, what have I told you about body? I told you the next time he would be a suspension by starting. I don’t want to hear boys on, so listen if you want to we can talk about it. A loser, The time you see spec doing. I didn’t see you in here yesterday. Well, the kids giving you a rough time at school, you know about it, old man. Oh, I know that people who are different, they they’re often the subject of ridiculed by others like you would know. Look, I know you can’t always tell the insides of a person by their outside. And there’s some people who are considered, well, losers. They often have what it takes on the inside to make a difference if they’d just try. So, you’ve heard of Abraham Lincoln? No, he had a face that only mama could love. And he lost more elections than he won. He was ridiculed for his appearance, for taking an unpopular stand at the end of the war. What about Gandhi? Yeah. What about him? Well, he was just an ordinary man, but he changed an entire country that does all this has to do with me. Do you really think I care? You know, I think you did. You may not want to admit it, but you’re something special too. What makes you think that? Nobody else thinks that? Well, Jesus Christ does. So Jesus Christ, he sees you as you really are. Well, why would you think I’m special? Well, let me explain. Look, this is going to be one of those long religious lectures and I I’m just interested, when I was 16 years old, made a big mistake. What? You stayed out past 10:00 P.M. No, I killed someone. You’re kidding. Right now, my friends and I were out drinking one night I drank too much, and they they dared me to see if I could drive 100 miles an hour on an old back road. Well, I didn’t want to look like a chicken, so I got in the car, took off. But when I came around a curve, I lost control and I hit a car, hit on the was a little girl inside that flew out the door. While she was killed, I wish that I had died myself. Everybody in town, even my friends that dared me that night. They, they painted me as a monster. I’d walk up to a group at school and they’d just walked away. It was a small town, and if I went down the street, people avoided me. I thought about suicide every day. It was the same thing. Even my parents seemed to treat me differently. They shouldn’t think that I could take it anymore. I thought they didn’t love me anymore. I wondered, what was the point in going on? No one would ever love after what I’d done. How did you get over it? I never did get over. I cook someone’s life. I drank more, my parents kicked me out. I ended up leaving a little town and going to a city where no one else knew me. But things really didn’t change. I still hated myself on the inside for what I’ve done. Then one day I was sitting at a park, it was almost night. I knew that I might be spending another night in bushes. It was cold. There was this old man that came up drinking a cup of coffee. He just started talking. I didn’t want to hear a thing. He had to say, you know, there was something different about he had this light that, that shone in his face. I don’t know why, but I just kept on listening. He told me about Jesus Christ and how Jesus had given his life for me, and I thought no one would ever love me again after what I’ve done. He brought me a friend. I think he brought me here.
Communication Scenario III – False Pretenses
Hmm. Let’s see if anybody is on the line today. Emily was here for a visit, so I’ve been a little by my two girls and I had some cooked, ate too much food. Yep, yep. Managed to get in a little training while they were gotta go. Someone’s at the door.