Identity enables us to manage both our own and other people’s lives. It is the least creative personality trait and a fascinating component of awareness. Your race and gender can completely alter who you are since they are social constructions because race is something we as humans invented. Many individuals desire to classify people according to their race, gender, religion, and ethnicity. While on the other hand, gender is also based on socially built qualities, whereas sex is determined by biological attributes. They acknowledge that there are differences in how people experience gender depending on their own self-perception, expression, and behavior. No matter how you were born, we each have our own identities. Appiah Antony thinks race and gender are different. Race is not a biological fact about us because there is no biological fact that divides us into groups. It’s okay to identify yourself with ethnicity but people are making a mistake by identifying people with race. 

Appiah sugests  a constrast between our attitudes to (ethical) gender and (ethical)race, he writes, we standadly hold open to people to believe that the replacement of the characteristics morphology of their sex with a (facsimile ) which means the “exact copy” of that of the other (major) one would produce someone other than themselves, a new ethical person; while the replacement of the characteristics morphology of their ethical race by that of another would not leave them free to disclaim the new person. This brings us to a question of how we identify ourselves. 

Who am I really? This got me thinking about a lot of things, especially since my grandmother had just told me last week that I didn’t choose to be born into my family and that I need to be more determined to succeed. I am what I am because of the family I was born into and the upbringing that I had. I was raised in a Christian home in Africa, specifically Zambia, modeling the sort of person I am now. I think that the race and gender I was born into have a lot to do with how I act and think.

If my race and gender were to change. I believe I will be a completely new person, starting with the way I perceive the world, how I perceive other people, how I speak, think, and deal with life in general.

For instance, if I live in Africa but change my race to white, I won’t worry about how people will perceive me because I know that because I am white, they will automatically assume that I am intelligent even though I am not, giving me an advantage over other people.  I will give you another example: If I was born female and then switched to being a male who was born and raised in an African home, I would think and act differently because I would be expected to work hard and support my family, and I would have no justification for not doing so since I would be judged as being lazy if I didn’t. However, if I switch to becoming a woman, I can work but am not actually expected to support my family, which means there is less demand on me to demonstrate my ability to work hard in society.

If you change your race, you will want to emulate the  race you first identified yourself with, which removes everything you used to identify with and causes you to become a completely different person. If you are born into a different race, you are born and treated differently.  You cannot return to your former self, even having memories of yourself as a different race and gender.