Social Imagination

I am affected by my home, friends, gender, age and race. My parents taught me to be who I am today while I was a child; And I would not be the person I am today if they had not raised me the way they did. Being a male has made my personality more like a man's than a woman's. Personally, I am glad to be a male in a society that is just learning to accept females. Being Caucasian has, at times in my life, made me feel like I am the "main" race, but I have realized that I am just one of the many people in the world and that we are all different. My friends have made me a better person by kindly improving how I feel and act around other people. They make me feel better about who I am and new social environments I may encounter. People may see me as just a teen, but I see myself as fairly mature. And being a teen has caused me to become more mature because I have to grow up in order to be a part of society.