"When Israel is attacking my identity, I defend my identity," Ahmed Tibi, an Israeli-Arab Parliament member, said in a telephone interview.
It's important for our sense of cultural identity, he believes, and consequently our ability to defend that identity against external threats, not to lose sight of this.
Despite this putative conflict with LL, some philosophers are prepared to defend temporary identity as the best solution to the puzzles about diachronic identity.
"To defend her identity, my grandmother kept doing seafood for Christmas Eve.
To cheers, Mr Wilders declared that Germans, too, needed to defend their identity against Islamisation.Mr Wilders should not be underestimated.
It's the strategy of the weak toward the strong: mastering the language of dominant usage permits one to better defend the identity of one's own language".
Complaining of the dangers of mass immigration and multiculturalism that she said the EU was forcing on France, she vowed to defend French identity and restore national sovereignty.
But for the millions who fear they are losing out, and who see their town or country changing around them, including through immigration, it's natural to hold on tight to, and fiercely defend, an identity that feels safe and familiar.
It would pursue its true agenda: to 'reclaim France's sovereignty and defend its identity, send the immigrants home, establish state authority, repress crime and delinquency, promote traditional family values, and install a policy of national preference to restore the pride of every French man and woman in the fact that they were born French'.
In effect, the resilience of Soqotra's pastoralism, thus far, is not due to its practitioners' political resistance to the state in order to defend an identity, but a strategic participation in its dominant political economy to ensure the sustainability of a communal mode of livelihood.
"The final was important as while we needed to win, we had to defend the identity of the team which was to play how we have been playing all season, under pressure and with millions watching around the world as well as the 90,000 in the stadium".
