Mydentities

Identities define us.
We all have our own identity formed through different aspects of our personality. Opinions and preferences are part of it, but also race, gender. Even hair colour can come into play.
Simple traits or opinions are part of a person's full identity, and they help people form opinions and even relationships.
Because people tend to be more inclined to associate with people of similar identities to themselves, group identities can be formed. For example, music and fashion sense brought in the teenage phenomenon of emo and scene kids, and they quickly became labelled as a group and had, to the outside world, a similar identity.
It is when identities turn into stereotypes that problems can arise. People assuming they know a person through one or two defining identity features. This poses a problem for minorities espescially, as that one identity feature can lead people to think they know the rest.
It is ultimately our personality on the whole that sets our identity, and within groups everyone has there own identity. Be it the angry one, the quiet one or even the player, identities give people their own place. On the whole, groups may appear to have similar identities. Students, OAPs, Twilight fans etc, but an identity means diversity, which means it is nearly impossible to identify a full group of people, or even two people, by exactly the same identity, because everything we do or like identifies us.