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Identity: a fiction. A fiction shaped from without. People increasingly forget this.

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December 9, 2019

 

As we can see in its Indonesian language version ‘jati diri’, meaning ‘self essence’, people consider identity to blossom naturally from ‘within’, and therefore it is fit to describe things like ‘me’, ‘you’ or ‘them’—or ‘Minang’, ‘Bugis’, ‘Indonesian’, ‘Negro’, ‘Chinese’...

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