“The apple does not fall far from the tree,” this is an idiom which shows the relationship of the apple and trees. It figuratively represents the fact that children are subjected to acting or being just like their parents when they get older. This social construct is called identity. According to Fearon James D.’s article,“What is Identity (as we now use the work)?” An identity represents social groups which can shape guidelines to determine membership and personality traits or structures (2). Social identity is based on a group of relationships, suchas sexual category, race and culture, or other social classes. Identity might bring positive feedback to one that one can recognize that who are they, what are their weakness and strength, and …show more content…
Gregor’s family reacts poorly on him just because he is a bug. They don’t care he used to be a good person, or how he treat his family well. When he turn into a bugs, he is nothing in his family. Discrimination’s and bias’s behavior happens because his family designates Gregor as an “animal” and a “monster” instead of human. For example, Gregor turns to “a monstrous verminous bug” with “numerous legs”; “amour- hard back” He craws instead of walking (Kafka 1). Similarly, people tend to treat unfairly each other if people label one’s is not same groups, classes, or status. These “identities are socially structured” affected by discrimination on race (Fearon 14).Race refers to physical appearance such as skin color than culture or education. According to McLemore and Romo’s article,racial & Ethnic Relations in Americanshows normally the power will be decide by racial and ethnic rather than their total size; for example, In the U.S,“white control power and wealth and don’t want to share” they concern that they are white and have high degree than the other, so they have more power to control the other (125). They treat them unfair because they are “non-white” as Black, Asian, or Latino; it does not matter where they are come from or were born (7). Irish moved to the U.S lately than Native American and African America, but they have more chances to improve themselves by going to school to learn English and looking for good jobs, so Irish moved up to the ethnic stratification ladder because White American and Irish look alike such as both of them have same white skin color (36). In another hand, gender is also social structure of identity by labeling women is weak gender. People concern that there are a lot jobs, duties, or missions which cannot finish by women because they don’t have ability to complete. This mindset