# How Digital Shapes our Identity?


With the ongoing trend of cultural appropriation, people’s identities will ultimately become extremely segregated from what their real identities are. This may cause an ever more severe psychological illusion in those who rely heavily on filters to make themselves look like a certain race or display certain facial features.

As a 21-year-old adult who comes from an East Asian country, China, I can’t understand the motive of the influencers behind their actions on social media. My guess is that some people may have a unique obsession with certain objects. We have to be inclusive about their choices, however, this does come with its downside: how are those, who come from the original culture, going to feel when they see such an exaggerated thing being displayed on the Internet?

I don’t feel like I can answer that question off the top of my head because I never dressed up like a certain race nor do I have any wired affection for any of them. However, as someone who spent years exercising in the gym and knows how hard it is for some people to gain muscle, so they started using technology to make their chests/arms look big (because they just don’t absorb well genetically), I believe that this psychological mindset applies to those who are culturally appropriate as well. Because they don’t have certain features that Black or Asian does, with the help of online filters they make themselves look more alike to their ideal appearance. This behavior, in my opinion, draws great harm to our psychological well-being and may misrepresent our identities in real life, because the filter is going to create a seemingly real look, which, in reality, does belong to yours. Hence, it is better to accept our flaws and divert our attention to things that are more important (friends, family, and schools) than looks.