Online identity and intimacy
Your human identity is
a way of expressing both your interior
character and
personal intimacy.
As you identify yourself, so you give insights and
images to other humans as to who you really
are—"deep down inside."
Your identity indicates to which groups you
belong, from family to Abrahamic to political to socioeconomic.
Forming the depth of your identity is so significant
that there are many initiation rituals. From corporate orientations
(becoming a “company
man” or
inculcating the “corporate culture”) to Abrahamic initiation
through the religious rite of Baptism to educational organizations
through, for example, pledging a fraternity, and
so forth.
People have multiple identities which
are all parts of the whole which
conveys “The real me.” As you identify
yourself in multiple ways other people form a concrete idea
of the complexity of your personal identity. Your whole is greater
than the
sum
of its parts, which might include, for example, geographic identity—“I’m
a Westerner. I live in America. I’m from New York. I live
in SoHo.” Employment identity—“I’m a
government worker. I am an accountant. I work for the Department
of Education.” Abrahamic
identity—“I’m a Christian. In the Roman Catholic
church. However, I am an “American Catholic,” a dissenter
from the Vatican’s dogma. I am in the Catholic Worker tradition.” Sexually—“I
am a heterosexual. I have herpes. I use Viagra.” And
so forth. These might be your multiple identities which when
taken together “really identify” who
you are.
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