As if
Identity: a fiction. A fiction shaped from without. People increasingly forget this.
Tempo
Edition : 9 Desember 2019
As if
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’...
People commonly forget that
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