From the 'white girl' BBC television drama, the concept of identity is constructed from the main character, a young girl called Leah, being removed from her own society and being introduced to a new one from which she is not familiar with. Being in this unfamiliar place, she loses all the modernist concepts and sources that create her original identity such as geography, social class, and education. Now that she is living in a different environment from her previous, she finds herself as an individual trying to get to grips with the traits around here, she becomes an individual due to the fact that her mother is unstable and going off the rails. She takes it upon herself to find her own identity and to create a new one; thus becoming an example of the post-modernist concept of identity.
One theorists view on identity is that 'the self is 'made' already, rather then inherited'. This is recognised in 'white girl' as the character Leah, has to try and change her identity to be like the people in the ethnic culture around her. Most of the traits she picks up for this identity she finds in Religion, changing from a regular christian lifestyle to an Islamic lifestyle. She shows that we all have a narrative of our identity's and this is mostly shown in Leah's changeful attitude, from keeping in her family, to finding faith in a religion and moving out because of her religious beliefs that her family does not agree with (which later changes), and then moving back in with family when the dad leaves.
