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Old 08-23-2008, 04:07 PM   #59 (permalink)
Baraka_Guru
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Originally Posted by roachboy View Post
but that doesn't make the categories like race any less stupid.
The only way I have been able to get over my own identity crisis is by understanding this view of yours, roachboy. And that of nation, for that matter.

My crisis both hit a pinnacle and was somewhat resolved in my university years. Much of this is because I attended a large and highly multicultural campus while studying cultural theory and contemporary literature.

I still have a lot of work to do. I should stop living under my rock, hiding away from the reality of my existence: It has very little to do with the fact that I'm a lower-middle-class Caucasian in what used to be referred to as the New World. I am not a ghost.

The Jewish identity is so far steeped in this idea of race and nation that I fear how I look in contrast.

What am I?
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