Slavenka Drakulic on multiple identity

We construct our own identities, asserts Croatian writer and journalist Slavenka Drakulic in an interview. "The inhabitants of border regions and people who have lived in a country other than their own for a long time, like the Turks in Germany or the Yugoslavs in Sweden, have multiple identities: a local identity, a regional identity, a national identity and a European identity. An entirely new situation, in which one identity does not exclude others, has emerged in Europe. There are only two situations in which one is forced to choose a particular identity: in war and in sport... Multiple identities help us overcome the fear of loss of identity and language. This fear leads people to choose a single identity and to want to exclude others."

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