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Rational Bases of Identity: Toward Cultural Anarchy

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June 29, 2012

What exactly is cultural identity? Is there something fundamentally absurd about claiming as your identity aspects of your self that are mere accidents of birth? Is defining cultural identity as group history irrational because it lacks recognition of the individual?

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