Sunday, September 3, 2017

Identity - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United."


From: Emma Brockes, "Salman Rushdie: ‘A lot of what Trump unleashed was there anyway,’" The Guardian

Image from article, with caption: "Taking on America … Salman Rushdie."
“In America when you talk about identity issues, at the moment a lot of that is gender identity. If you’re in England, there’s this other argument about national identity, which was behind the Brexit catastrophe; and in India, when people talk about identity, they’re really talking about religious sectarianism. In all three places, the identity subject is colossal but it is understood completely differently. ”

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