Ethnic identities are adaptable to and activated by unexpected threats and new opportunities.
Their quest for public legitimacy was undertaken within a framework of a bicultural identity that was adaptable to the private, Mexican world of home, church, neighborhood, and family, as well as to the public world of school, work, and politics.
The enduring nature of these literary exchanges dramatically recasts early American literature as a literature of diaspora, Tennenhouse argues--and what made the settlers' writings distinctly and indelibly American was precisely their insistence on reproducing Englishness, on making English identity portable and adaptable.
Indeed, it is through games, rather than art experiments that we're likely to truly discover how adaptable we all are to new physical identities.
Having multiple daily memory reports on the phone of how we were in the past might therefore render our memory less malleable and less adaptable to the changes brought about by life making our identity more stable and fixed.
Places need an identity, and they need long term and realistic strategies which are adaptable: They need to respond to what is happening locally but also globally.
My identity is fairly cosmopolitan and outward looking, and I'm very adaptable.
"The geography, as well as the identity of Serge's practice, has just become more liquid, more adaptable, more agile," she explains.
While there is emerging research, most research methodologies that investigate science identity employ methods such as interviews and case studies, which are not adaptable for use in undergraduate biology classrooms with large numbers of students.
The future can present opportunities to engage in a more "distributed" economy, to enjoy a near-infinite variety of identities and pursuits, to learn from and be enriched by more flexible, adaptable social structures than ever before.
"They are multilingual, universally understood, varied in form, highly adaptable and yet still instantly recognizable since each of the 10 characters has its own strong and unique identity".
