10-30-2019 YOSHINO

To “modulate your outsider identity” is to adjust the way you express yourself to others in order to be better enveloped into or understood by a group, an idea that Yoshino describes very well in his works, “the Pressure to Cover.” In “The Pressure to Cover,” Yoshino describes his experiences of being told by a colleague that if he hides his homosexual orientation, he has a better chance at securing tenure. This is a perfect example of how societal standards expect people to change themselves in order to be better accommodated for by others and become more accepted into the whole. I think that everyone has at least one version of a modified identity that they pull on to present to others. I would even argue that everyone has multiple different identity masks that they utilize as a sort of camouflage.