One example that challenged a single story I had about another identity was Kie from Outer Banks. Kie grew up in a wealthy family and was expected to follow the lifestyle and future that her parents wanted for her. However, she felt more like herself when she was with the Pogues, who came from a very different socioeconomic background. She chose to spend her time with them, go on adventures with them, and eventually she fell in love with one of them.

What i really liked about Kie was not the fact that she didn’t let her family’s wealth determine who she was supposed to be friends with or who she was supposed to fall in love with but how it challenged the idea of how people coming from different social classes naturally belong in separate groups. When i thought that socioeconomic backgrounds should determine your friends, surroundings and everything in between, Kie proved me wrong and she showed me that a person’s background doesn’t necessarily have to do with where they belong.

Since watching this show, I became so aware with how the media draws a clear line between poor and rich people and any story portraying poor people living in a world and rich people living in another world. Outer banks used this as part of their story and they also showed that characters were so much more complicated than just a social class.

This made me think much deeper about identity because i realised  that identity is not only where someone comes from or their age, race, religion but rather its where they feel like they truly belong