Joanna wrote:
>The reason why everybody is playing the label/identity game is first
>because this has become the (degraded) language of politics since the
>seventies and two, because we are so drained of any kind of identity
>that we hysterically hang on to whatever is thrown our way in order to
>feel that we have some kind of meaningful existence.
I think it's wrong to go so far in embracing an identity that you forget your common humanity, but don't people have a right to see themselves in terms of an identity if it speaks to their experience?
Arash