Quotes:

• “… we have multiple identities and multiple points of contact with other people, and it’s almost never true that there is no shared ground at all.” (Appiah)
• “IF YOU DEFINE YOURSELF THROUGH THE ACT OF OPPOSITION, THEN YOU’RE LETTING THE OPPRESSORS SET THE TERMS” (Appiah)
• “If you allow your identity to be totally shaped by your opposition to a dominant culture, as many racial groups have done because of the history of racism and xenophobia, you can become locked into that minority status. The first time a group becomes conscious of itself as an important social group, it is because they realize that they’re all being subjected to something. But if you define yourself through the act of opposition, then you’re letting the oppressors set the terms.” (Appiah)
• “This seems like an important point, because I think we tend to think of identity as intractable or fixed, and so we get locked into these labels and they come to define us and define our conflicts with one another. But as you say, we have multiple identities and multiple points of contact with other people, and it’s almost never true that there is no shared ground at all.” (Illing)

 

Concept Words:

• Identity: the fact of being who or what a person or thing is (identity)
• Reduce: to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc,. (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/reduce?s=t)
• Politics: exercising or seeking power in the governmental or public affairs of a state, municipality, etc,. (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/political)