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Monday, December 9, 2019
Identity: a fiction. A fiction shaped from without. People increasingly forget this.
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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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