Identity – Hanah Metchis has a REALLY nice post on “Constructing a Historical Identity.” Although she compellingly resists being identified with any group (or perhaps more accurately, having her identity derived from membership in any group), I would like to respectfully suggest that her desire to escape the dictates of the past and create her own identity (which her post and other evidence confirm that she has done both successfully and appealingly) is in fact highly characteristic of one group whose clutches she probably cannot evade and whose brand she could not altogether erase even if she tried. I refer to that historically distinctive and idiosyncratic group known as Americans.
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