Billig,(1995) supported the theory of Barrett and Oppenheimer 2011 has demonstrated that “despite the pervasiveness of national identity, it is also true to say that national identities are often invisible, to children and adults alike. (Cited in Gallagher P.2015.2.5)
This suggests that identities, to children can have a major importance to a child’s life, e.g. the language a child learns to speak, the way of life adopted by the child’s family heritage.
Furthermore,identity is not just an important attribute associated with a childs national identity which is self categorized and learnt, tried and counter intuitively tested throughout their lifetime. This shows that even though children can grow to understand other influences, they are more receptive to what makes them who they are first e.g. gender, nationality, ethnicity and religion and who else is around them who is similar to form a basic necessity as children form friendships to what concepts and attitudes are familiar.
However, when children are with others their age, they forget that it was the …show more content…
encouragement, approval are more likely to be resilient from those who experience humiliation, rejection or failure because they understand how to remain hopeful, and feel able to take control of their actions making the less vulnerable despite them challenges that peers and caregivers have