Fatal Identities

(deep inside, what are you ? Egyptian or Jordanian?)

such question exposes a very common and extremely fatal radical perspective, which assumes that each one of us has a (deep inside) IDENTITY, that is determined at birth once and for all and never changes, As if the rest of the human contentments, pursuit,conventions,experiences, sensitivity,personal preferences and his life will then be completely worthless.

At every age,there were a group of people who consider that there is a DOMINANT IDENTITY, which is superior to all other identities at every time and under every possible circumstances, which may be termed as (SOLE IDENTITY).
and this identity might be the motherland for some people,religion for others. a single look at every conflict during human history reveals that there is no dominant or superior identity.Whenever there is a threat to a group of people's faith, mother language,they would fight their brothers in religion, Turkish and Kurd are a fair example, so were the Hutu and the Tutsi,both are catholic with the same mother language..and the same mother land.

Its all about our own perspective that lock people -and us included- in their narrowest identities, and it also can send them free,-us also included-.

Being an EGYPTIAN is something i share with more than 75 million human being, in the mean while being JORDANIAN is something i also share with 5 millions but being JORDANIAN and EGYPTIAN at the same time is something i share with few thousands, maximum..and thats all without considering my PALESTINIAN origins.
So every identity i have connects me with large number of people, but the more identities i take in consideration the more my identity become unique and individual, with more intersections.

Also, the thing that may determine individual's belongation to a special group of people is the influence of the surrounding, and of the people around him whom may by paying effort for recruiting him under a specific identity/cause which mght become an essential part of a certain identity.
so, each one of us starts identity absorption early in life, the parents - intentionally or not - starts carving the identity and implanting the basic ideologies , rituals, faith , attitudes, previous judgements, despites and the belongation.

In most of cases we prefer to recognize ourselves through the most threatened identity we have , when we feel hopeless defending it ,we hide it and it remain hidden underneath waiting for revenge. When it become in focus or even criticized, its members stick together. and then the emphasizing froces of that identity becomes a holy mission that becomes out-standardized , heroic and legal no matter what means it's illustration was made through.
Then we are able to imagine how is any individual may be pushed to commit the worst crimes if he felt that his identity is being threatened only then no matter how much fundamental, radical and extreme what he is up to it will be legal , authorized and accepted . And the term "criminal" will be rejected under the umbrella of nobility.
As how far assuring identity is accepted remains vogue , then identities might become FATAL.