Why Do We Need One Conform To Identity?

white cockroach, go away, go away” (Rhys 13). Antoinette grew up torn between to identity, one she can only relate due to her skin color, but her hair was jet black and her eyes were brown, whereas an English girl has a brown curly hair and blues eyes. The other she relate to by cultures and common birthplace. But she could not identified with either ethnic groups, because she is not English and nor is she black. Even though Antoinette was a fictional character In Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, her life experiences has been experienced by many people in the world and it still continued today.
Jean Rhys shares the same identity crisis with Antoinette Cosway. She was born and brought up in the Caribbean island, Roseau, Dominica, where her father, …show more content…
It also dismissed the myth of cultural conformity, that all individual from a particular ethnic group are the same, with same believes, attitudes and preferences (Poston 1990). But why should one be conform to one identity when you can enjoy the fluidity of the world, navigating between nations and feel connected to everyone. One should have the right to be anything one chooses without the stereotypical image of how and what should be. Biracial children faces the question “who are you” in every day of their lives. They are forced by society to choose one identity and stick to it (Poston 1990). But how can one choose an identity when neither seem to want to accept you as who you are. The blacks think of the biracial as not black enough. Their skin tone does not fit or resemble that of a black person. They are different, in personality, “too white or such a white girl”, their hair is too soft and curly, not as thick as a black girl hair. White think they are not white enough, their skin is too tan, hair is not as straight as a white girl or boy. Their personality is too much that of a black person. As they try to fit every mold that is present before them, one could not help but ask what is white and what is black (Smith 2013). We have been told that a black person acted this way, they like soul food, which is fried chicken, spinach, mash potatoes, etc. but there are many blacks, one that both parent are of the same race, that do not like soul food, or like one but not the rest, and are well mannered and educated. As well as there are some white that have personality that is questionable. But society is so rooted in the stereotypical image of any race that they refused to see it as any different. Forcing one to choose between two identities, giving the fact