When particular identity labels bring power and prestige, individuals often cleave tighter to them. But for others, like Hla Hla or anyone that comes from a subordinated group, there is often a compulsion to morph from one to another. Rather than this providing evidence of an innate superiority in the master ethnicity, this phenomenon shows that the identity, or identities, we subscribe to have less of a bearing on our inner nature than some might like to think. Our ability to move between groups is surely a reflection of that old dictum, that our similarities are more powerful than our
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