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'We're all the same'

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • May 20, 2024
  • 1 min read

No, we're not. I have an identical twin. We share 100% of the same DNA, yet we are distinct and different from each other. Everyone is actually different. Movements that succeed should focus on that rather than some kind of superficial similarity ... national identity becomes jingoism or xenophobia with only the slightest push. We contain multitudes, and we're all fundamentally unknowable, even to ourselves.

 
 
 

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