In the world today there are many forms of identity which each ones form almost an alliance with each other, it forms sections in society of people who identify in specific areas, and you can be in multiple. Some of these forms of identity can be things such as: religion, culture, race, social background, class.

These types of identity affects society and always have. It shows a place for a person and what type of person they are, as it allows them to connect and relate to other who have the similar identity. For example things such as religion, there are many different religions, and each of them used to battle about who was right, and it would cause riots, disagreements and hate towards people. Although now it is more widely accepted to identify as what ever religion you may, because its taught that people should have their own place in life, and to be accepted no matter what. This is similar with culture, race, and social background. Some of these identity’s mix at times, but that doesn’t always mean there are arguments between them, more understanding and mature people accept and move on with what identity people stand for. In todays world there is a significantly less amount of hate towards different identity’s and people can be more accepting, although there are still areas in the world where because of a lack of different identity’s it would be strange for them to encounter one outside of their own.

In a place like jersey there is not as much identity groups or areas in comparison to a bigger country like England. And Jersey is although a small area it is seen as more of a collective island, where people are more collective, as in different places in the world there are more extreme types for people and identity, although in jersey there is a lot of different identity’s everywhere, for example a recent event which was a Portuguese festival playing their cultural and famous songs, and everyone was allowed in, but it shows a cultural/identity celebration.

Identity impacts society majorly, without a concept of identity, everyone would be in unison, but identity creates this separation from other people in a type of way, it doesn’t mean they can’t interact or be with people outside of their own identity, it is more of a deeper connection for themselves and maybe with people who are the same. In society every identity interacts with each other without any problems mostly/all the time.

A good example of identity through religion which has gone on for a long time and still goes on to this day is in Iraq, between a cultural group called ISIS, and fights against its own people and people from outside of the country as well, where they used to be in a war between the US, it caused lots and lots of deaths, and a lot of corruption only because a country had a cultural identity crisis with people in its own land fighting against the country.