We are emerging a culture of self-identification, which is intriguing. This is clear in the Pronoun phenomenon around gender. There are now at least 10 or more variants. This seems to have merit. It's when others make the identity choice by bias, not the individual by experience
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How do you self-identify according to common isms such as Race, Gender, Ethnicity, Class etc? Or do you prefer not to? Or something else (and please share!) #Identity
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I try hard not to put myself or others in boxes but no doubt fail. I probably fail most where the boxes are ones my parents wanted for me which I disassociate from. e.g. I strongly define myself as *not* Tory but wear my allegiance to any other party lightly
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…similarly my dad was obsessed with being “upper middle class” (because of his personal history) even while we lived on a working class council estate. It was ridiculous. I understand why these boxes exist but they inevitably become counter productive imo
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My mother was brilliant when it came to everything but class despite her mother coming here via a cattle boat during Polish pogroms (pre Holocaust). She was a shining light of racial, sexual, worker, individual and women's justice. But class and education? Total snob.
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Gosh, what a life. My parents were 2 peas in a pod when it came to class though for different reasons. My dad’s dad (who I never met) was a case study for 20th century social mobility. My mum was born into the last days of the British Raj
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Replying to @schofeld
My parents divided there, not as yours in politics. My father was "low class" despite a Stuyvesant education - math, science. He was very dark skinned but I don't think that was of issue to her. He served in Korea as infantry, she disliked that he wan't a higher rank FFS! Family!

Jan 23, 2021 · 4:03 PM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
Family indeed! My dad served in Korea too. I know too little about it cos he didn’t want to talk about it. He was obsessed with status, which is no great surprise given the trajectory of his life as a career soldier and afterwards
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Ah. My father never talked about Korea either. He also forbade us to even make the pistol sign or have toy guns. My husband was a Navy Corpsman in Vietnam. He wrote his story, told me some but usually did not speak of it and was enraged at the government. He died 2 weeks into DJT
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