Dear Foxy,

«Anyone of us could describe ourselves with a multitude
of different identities. Those identities may be
cultural, ethnic, religious, gendered, class-oriented or
ideological. They are as varied as our imagination.»

Right on! All these "identities" are nothing but imagination!

Where from this strange habit of identifying with properties of our bodies and circumstances?

I have a culture, I am NOT a culture.
I have an ethnicity, I am NOT an ethnicity.
I have a religion, I am NOT a religion.
My body has a gender, I am neither this body not its gender.
I might have a class, I am NOT a class.
I have an ideology, I am NOT any ideology.

This is why I stopped answering surveys.
They keep asking such idiotic questions: "Are you Male or Female?"
Obviously I am neither. If they want to ask about my body (but why?) than they ought to ask about my body, not about me!

And now this fellow "researcher" would like us to imagine that we were a continent (i.e. Australia).
Perhaps I rather imagine that I were a steam boat?

Look Mr. Farrugia, we need to park our bodies somewhere, in my case and in the case of most of my friends here, it happens to be in this continent of Australia. This has nothing to do with my or anyone else's identity. Need a proof? Suppose I moved my body to another continent - does this suddenly make me someone else than who I were when my body was in Australia?

Dear Yuyutsu,

I think you would make an excellent subject for
this PhD candidate. You would give him a
different insight and perspective - which would
be a bonus to his thesis. After all he is after
various thoughts on Australian identity - and
you obviously have very strong feelings and
opinions and would contribute quite a lot.

Give it a go. You just might enjoy the experience
and you'd be adding something to research.

Yuyutsu,

You can stop guessing. You are Asian, just like the rest of us.

Our identities are largely tied to who we belong to. We are all children of Adam to start with (unless you are idiotic to believe apes). The last Adam (Jesus Christ) offers identity as children of God to those who believe and call on His name. Thankfully their are people from all tribes and all nations that have taken up God's offer.

runner,

That's because you have a religious view of the world.

I have a scientific view of the world which says that we are the product of a diaspora of homo sapiens who left Africa about 60,000 years ago.

'I have a scientific view of the world which says that we are the product of a diaspora of homo sapiens who left Africa about 60,000 years ago.'

certainly have a lot more faith than me Mr O.