Communicating Identity

Gender identity implies the extent to which an individual relates to a specific gender. It is the personal experience and sense of being a female or male or another gender. The gender of a person is usually influenced in the early stages of life and includes the acceptance or non-acceptance of an individual's affiliation to a gender category. This can be explained by the concept of majority identity which, in the second stage, elucidates on how difficult it is to ignore the societal hierarchy that shapes both majority and minority development due to its inescapable, systemic, and intertwining quality (Martin & Nakayama, 2013).

In my view, possessing the identity of a Chinese woman is significantly influenced by a range of social factors. For instance, in our culture, the female is the central figure in the domestic setting while the male performs a more dominant role in the business industry. Moreover, it is true that in the production of silk, which was essential to diplomacy and trade of China, women were the one that provided the physical labor needed to plant the mulberry trees, nurturing the worms, extracting the silk, and spinning it into cloth. Therefore, from the early history of our culture, the female identity is characterized by the submissive woman who performs domestic roles.