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“Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.”

People Years Past Moving Race Groups Identity Variety Manners Southern Accents Yankees Brainwashing Brainwashed Confederate Ethnic Groups Brainwash Yankee Fans

Author:John Shelton Reed

“The new culture war is about national identity rather than religion and 'transcendent authority.' It focuses on which groups the United States will formally admit to residence and citizenship. It asks the same question as the old culture war: 'Who are we?' But the earlier query was primarily about how we define ourselves morally. The new question is about how we define ourselves ethnically, racially and linguistically. It is, in truth, one of the oldest questions in our history, going back to our earliest immigration battles of the 1840s and 1850s.”

War States Culture Asks United United States Groups Identity Battle Authority Immigration Citizenship Transcendent Residence National Identity Queries New Cultures Old Culture

Author:E. J. Dionne

“Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.”

Strong Groups Identity African American Bad Things Group Identity

Author:J. C. Watts

“We all construct worldviews that give us a sense of meaning. Mostly it is about belonging to a group and having a sense of identity and purpose.”

Giving Purpose Groups Identity Belonging Constructs Worldview Belonging To A Group

Author:Carmen Lawrence

“The member of a primitive clan might express his identity in the formula "I am we"; he cannot yet conceive of himself as an "individual," existing apart from his group.”

Might Individual Responsibility Groups Identity Members Independence Formulas Individualism Primitive Sovereignty Individual Rights Clans

Book:Sane Society Ils 252

Source: Sane Society Ils 252

“Our sense of identity is in large measure conferred on us by others in the ways they treat or mistreat us, recognize or ignore us, praise us or punish us. Some people make us timid and shy; others elicit our sex appeal and dominance. In some groups we are made leaders, while in others we are reduced to being followers. We come to live up to or down to the expectations others have of us.”

People Way Made Sex Leader Groups Identity Expectations Treats Praise Appeals Shy Followers Dominance Sex Appeal Mistreat

Book:The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil

Source: The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil

“One's worth and self-regard ought to come from individual competitive performance, not from group identity. Pride based on clan or tribal connections is atavistic. It appeals to people who fear they cannot succeed as individuals, and by diverting their energies it all but ensures they will not succeed as individuals.”

People Self Individual Energy Groups Identity Pride Ought Succeed Connections Performances Regard Appeals Clans Group Identity

Book:In Defense of Elitism

Source: In Defense of Elitism

“Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language.”

Certain Language Opinion Rights Groups Identity Notion Salt Rejected Exclusive English Language Quaint

Author:Ilana Mercer

“To me, a person's identity is composed of both an 'I' and a 'we.' The 'I' finds itself in love, work, and pleasure, but it also locates itself within some meaningful group identity - a tribe, a community, a 'we.' America is too big and bland a tribe for most of us.”

Persons Bigs America Community Pleasure Groups Identity Meaningful Tribes Bland Group Identity

Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.”

Needs Enemy Groups Identity Defined

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.”

Black Groups Identity Praise West Black Women

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and pretend to be part of a more favored group. Fair-skinned blacks invented "passing" as a term, Jews escaping anti-Semitism perfected the art, and the sexual closet continues the punishment, but pretending to be a younger age is probably the most encouraged form of "passing," with the least organized support for "coming out" as one's true generational self.”

“It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?”

Should Motivational Running Interest Groups Identity Please India

Author:Lakshmi Mittal

“The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is a successful variant of a group identity and is in accord with its space-time and life plan.”

Way Children Reality Individual Space Successful Growing Plans Groups Awareness Identity Ego Accord Synthesis Space Time Life And Time Growing Children Group Identity

Book:Identity and the Life Cycle

Source: Identity and the Life Cycle

“There are a host of ethnic minorities in China but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small in total number. History has taught the Han that other groups will and should ultimately be absorbed and assimilated as Han. There is a belief that the Han enjoy a superior and far more advanced culture.”

Should Culture Belief Enjoy Numbers Groups Identity Taught Weak China Superiors Minorities Host

Author:Martin Jacques

“No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.”

People Men America Black White Existence Focus Groups Identity Black People Black Women

Book:Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

Source: Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

“The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and belief. So if this is a novel about migration it must be that act of putting in question. It must perform the crisis it describes.”

Ifs Culture Individual Belief Novel Groups Identity Crisis Migration

Author:Salman Rushdie

“By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so called 'diversity' actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist.”

Groups Identity Diversity Racism Obsession Racist Mentality Group Identity

Author:Ron Paul

“American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics.”

Facts Seems Political Left Answers Groups Identity Organization Tendencies League American Society Bowling Identity Politics

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I am interested in the paradox between identity and uniformity, in the power and vulnerability of each individual and each group. It is in this paradox that I try to visualize by concentrating on poses, attitudes, gestures, and gazes.”

Trying Individual Attitude Groups Identity Vulnerability Paradox Gestures Concentrating Uniformity

Book:פרויקט יישרעלי

Source: פרויקט יישרעלי

“It was a very easy way to have a group of friends on a very large campus - a sense of identity. It was a great place to learn how to navigate a variety of personalities, which you kind of have to do in life. You've got the shy woman and you've got the obnoxious woman and you've got the brainiac and you've got the social climber and you've got the introvert and the extrovert, and you're all living together. I think it gave me valuable experience in learning how to live with people that are different than you are. And that's an important lesson. You can bet it comes in very handy in the Senate.”

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