사회에서 정체성과 진정성의 투쟁

### 정체성의 투쟁: 디지털 시대의 자기 표현 탐색하기
* 🎓 자신을 재창조하고 싶다는 희망과 다양한 사회 집단 사이에서 자신이 진정 어디에 속해 있는지 불확실한 상태로 **고등학교에 입학**했다고 상상해 보세요.
* 🤔 점심 식사 자리에서 테이블을 선택해야 한다는 압박감은 **외모나 배경에 따라 외부의 인식이 사회적 위치**를 결정할 수 있는 더 광범위한 정체성 투쟁을 상징할 수 있습니다.
* 📖 사회학자 W.E.B. 듀보이스 박사는 **'이중 의식'이라는 개념**을 도입하여 자신이 자신을 인식하는 방식과 타인이 자신을 인식하는 방식 사이의 내적 갈등을 강조했습니다.
* 📱 오늘날의 디지털 시대에는 소셜 미디어가 이러한 고민을 증폭시키는데, **플랫폼이 끊임없는 감시**를 가능하게 하고 **"나는 누구인가?"라는 질문**이 더욱 복잡해졌기 때문입니다.
* 💡 소셜 미디어가 유발할 수 있는 정체성 위기에도 불구하고, 철학을 접근 가능하고 매력적으로 만드는 **Imprint와 같은 플랫폼**에서 볼 수 있듯이 소셜 미디어는 **지식과 학습을 민주화**하기도 합니다.
* 🌍 정체성의 충돌과 진정성에 대한 추구가 보편적인 투쟁임을 드러내며 **아프리카계 미국인의 경험에 대한 듀 보아의 통찰**은 오늘날에도 공감을 불러일으킵니다.
* 🌀 이중 의식의 끈질긴 속성은 절망감으로 이어질 수 있지만, **우리의 정체성이 전적으로 타인의 인식에 의해 형성되어서는 안 된다**는 점을 인식하는 것이 중요합니다.
* 🌟 궁극적으로 진정성을 포용하고 자신의 정체성으로 어려움을 겪는 사람들을 지원함으로써 개인은 **끊임없이 진화하는 세상에서 복잡한 자기 표현의 문제**를 헤쳐나갈 수 있게 됩니다.

정체성 투쟁은 사회적 인식과 기대 속에서 진정성의 중요성을 드러냅니다.

[Music] Imagine it's your first year of high school or your first day of class. Last night, you spent the evening wondering what the next day would bring. How will you reinvent yourself? Who will you become this year? You may have stayed up watching YouTube videos discussing tips and tricks on how to have a good year, and now you feel ready to take on the world. Now imagine walking into lunch. You're paralyzed by the decision of which table to sit at. Do you choose the corner seat with your friends from science class, or perhaps you should sit with your friends from theater, maybe even from band, or you could pick the table with your friends from the soccer team. You might find yourself relating to various groups of people with various different backgrounds and different interests, but you might not feel quite at home within any particular clique. Now imagine if that choice for the rest of the year was determined by another person. Let's say that decision will be based solely upon your appearance, your skin tone, or maybe even

your gender expression that day. Where do you think you would be? Identity at times can feel like a buffet of personality traits, a list of characteristics to choose from, to put on a play, and to give to others. It often forces one to consider which of these identities is truly your authentic self. Am I the person you perceive me to be, or am I the person of whom I choose to express myself as? Or, as sociologist Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois would put it, Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in my own house? Du Bois even provided a useful term for this tug of war between identity and the perception of your identity. He calls it the double consciousness. Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an African-American civil rights philosopher. His writing encompassed many topics, primarily sociology, history, racial justice, and even equality. In 1903, one of his most popular works, The Souls of Black Folk, is still considered a cornerstone in African-American literature to this day. In this text, Dr. Du Bois summarizes the

experience of being black in a so to speak post Jim Crow era. As he writes, the history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. This desire to have some sort of ownership in terms of how you were perceived is just as relevant now as it was in Du Bois's time. In the digital age, many of us greatly fear being perceived. You may have seen Tik Toks or memes which reference that aversion to perception that we all experience daily. Some of us may use private stories, some of us use close friends, and some of us just choose to disengage their platforms altogether to avoid being seen. With the rising prevalence of social media, these platforms allow for other users to voice their opinions, share their whereabouts, and instantaneously engage with popular mainstream media at the push of a button. Whether live on Twitch or perceived through highlighted clips on YouTube, the arrival of the ability to express ourselves online forces us to ask a

seemly simple question: who am I? Early am I the person that you see as you tap through the stories, or in a more relevant fashion, am I more than who you perceive me to be? Now, despite the identity crisis that can emerge from using social media, one of its irrefutable benefits is in democratizing access to learning about new concepts such as double consciousness. That's why I'd like to introduce the sponsor of this video, imprint. With imprint, knowledge from the world's greatest thinkers is visualized and presented in clear and exciting ways. Imprint is time-efficient and easy to integrate into daily routines, as big concepts can be mastered in as little as 2 minutes per session, which makes it fun to learn more. Instead of spending that time scrolling on social media, you can learn about fields of study like philosophy and psychology while also getting better at taking care of yourself and others through learning about health and wellness. It's no surprise it was Google's app of the year, as millions use it to learn for its incredible content.

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painful self-consciousness, an almost morbid sense of a personality, and a moral hesitancy which is fatal to self-confidence. But this struggle in acting as one's authentic self is not limited to the African-American experience; rather, it is something that many of us can relate to. He goes on to say, The worlds within and without the veil of color are changing and changing rapidly, but not at the same rate, not in the same way, and this must produce a peculiar wrenching of the Soul, a peculiar sense of doubt and Belo. Perhaps Du Bois would be shocked to see the technological advancements we've made as a society, but he would not be surprised to see a social media psychological impact on identity and self-expression. The dichotomy between perception and reality has been written about many times since by several other philosophers and many other Scholars, but John P. Pitman, in his work Double Consciousness, alludes to this double consciousness as a sensation, a consciousness of oneself, but which falls

short of a unified true self-consciousness. It is part of a more complex feeling of tuness of despair and competing thoughts, strivings, and ideals. This is not an episodic or occasional sensation but a persistent form of consciousness. Penman's words suggest that double consciousness, while a persistent feeling, does not have to be a natural state of being. Maybe identity lies outside of who we are, influenced by something outside of one's control, but that does not mean it should be entirely determined through other perceptions of us. In the latter half of this book, Dr. Deoy says the following: Such a double life with double thoughts, double duties, and double social classes must give rise to double words and double ideals, tempt the mind to pretense or to revolt, to hypocrisy or to radicalism. Every day we are given an opportunity to choose who we are and which actions, ideas, or identities we want to uphold. If you have the privilege to choose, why not choose authenticity? Choose to support others who may not have had such privilege to alleviate any such.

dysphoria, which may be deemed as wrong or polarizing to society, presents us with a diagnosis and an answer to combat this paralyzing duality that we may feel. Yes, we may live in an ever-expanding, ever-changing world, but that does not mean we should allow this world to define us. Perhaps the most radical thing one can do is authentically be themselves, to authentically define. [Music]

the fear of being perceived

Sisyphus 55

고등학교는 학생들이 다양한 사회 집단을 탐색하고 자신의 정체성을 찾기 위해 노력하는 혼란스러운 시기일 수 있습니다.

적응해야 한다는 압박감은 압도적일 수 있으며, 점심시간에 어디에 앉을지 선택하는 것은 인생을 바꾸는 결정처럼 느껴질 수 있습니다.

듀보이스 박사는 자신의 진정한 자아와 타인의 인식 사이의 갈등을 설명하기 위해 '이중 의식'이라는 용어를 만들어 진정한 정체성을 찾기 위한 투쟁을 강조했습니다.

디지털 시대의 자기 정체성을 위한 끊임없는 투쟁

짐 크로우 시대 이후의 흑인으로서의 경험은 자의식 있는 남성성과 자신의 인식에 대한 소유권에 대한 갈망으로 특징지어집니다.

인식되는 것에 대한 두려움은 오늘날 소셜 미디어가 이러한 정체성 투쟁을 증폭시키는 것과 관련이 있습니다.

소셜 미디어로 인한 정체성 위기에도 불구하고, Imprint와 같은 플랫폼은 시간 효율적이고 매력적인 지식 습득 방법을 제공함으로써 이중 의식과 같은 개념에 대한 학습 접근성을 민주화하기도 합니다.

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듀 보이스 박사는 아프리카계 미국인이 경험하는 이중 의식에 대해 이야기하며 정체성의 충돌과 그것이 자신감에 미치는 영향을 강조합니다.

진정한 자기 표현을 위한 투쟁은 보편적인 경험이며, 유색인종이라는 베일 안팎의 급격한 변화는 독특한 의심과 혼란을 야기합니다.

이중 의식은 상반된 생각과 이상에 대한 지속적인 느낌으로, 정체성이 외부 요인의 영향을 받는다는 것을 의미합니다.

이러한 이중성은 진정성과 사회적 기대 사이에서 갈등을 일으킬 수 있습니다.

이 글은 진정성을 선택하고 다른 사람들의 여정을 지원하는 것의 중요성을 강조하며, 세상이 우리를 정의하도록 내버려둬야 한다는 생각에 도전합니다.