Allegiance with the nation-state (or states in the In sub-continent), religions, party ideologies, or other communally constituted fractions, or key politicians are relevant dimensions of identity-positionings in the discourse that plays out on mediascapes.
This leads into a dissertation on the contemporary trend for any dimension of identity – race, gender – to be reclassified as a matter of personal choice, determined not by objective facts but an individual's feelings.
Ma Mung (1992) describes how the Chinese Diaspora is structured around an entrepreneurial centre, with activities "strongly connected" to an "economic organisation in which the dimension of identity is predominant" (1992 117), and with a spatial layout of the businesses, mainly in the region of Paris.
This orientation is a dimension of identity-politics: politicians align their activities and discourse towards different communities, including personality-driven approaches and different ways of identifying with the citizenship; they engage with citizens and accentuate differences between ideologies.
where I denotes an identity matrix and the index of I denotes the dimensions of the identity matrix.
The season finale goes further still, offering the viewer a glimpse of the series that "Believer" could have been — one that wrestles with the agonistic dimensions of religious identity instead of trying to assimilate them into a beatific meta-faith.
I have a hard enough time choosing a brand of ketchup – let alone choosing what dimensions of my identity are most salient for the things I will be engaging in today, this week, or this month.
Alternatively, you can add custom labels to these dimensions of your identity and tag your tweets into them, which also teaches Persona's algorithm.
Admittedly, the line between an individual's personal and the collective dimensions of individual identity is somewhat fuzzy, but the distinction is helpful when we move on to consider whether disability status is or should be an aspect of individual identity.
