Self-Automobile: What Makes It Run? What shapes an individual? If someone asks you who are you? How would you respond? Would you say you are a Smith, an American, a Christian, or a primate? A person is like automobile. A car is made up of many components that work in complement to make a car run. A person contains such components that make them in various ways. Moreover, the traditional components of religious affiliation and of kinship ties in which anthropologists emphasize on the most are not the only components that shapes an individual. As demonstrated in my research of the three personal web pages, the traditional components are just the basics. In addition, to the two traditional components, there are also factors like ethnicity, culture, and language that aid to shape an individual.The first personal home page is of a girl name Sueko. She comes from the beautiful state of Hawaii and from the island of Oahu. Her original hometown is called Hawaii Kai and she graduated from Kaiser High School in 1997. Her ethnicity is Japanese and is a sophomore at the University of Washington whose plan is to enter the school of Psychology and then continue her education by trying for the UWs medical school. Her name in Japanese means last child because she is the youngest of her family. Sueko is named after her two grandmothers. She is highly involved on campus in organizations such as the Japanese Student Association, Asian Baptist Student Koinoa, and Hui Hoaloha Ulana, which is UWs branch of the Hawaii Club. She currently works part-time. Her musical tasted is R&B and Hawaiian music. Included in her home page were picture of her friends, Hawaii, and of UW. In addition, she made a page dedicated to things she likes and dislikes and of other random bits of information about herself. She also put up on her home page her original poetry and other interesting links about Hawaii and Asian culture related links. Overall, I thou...
