And if a conversation I had in 2006 with an Afro-Arab Sudanese-American friend in Chicago is any indication, in a post-9/11 America, many like him prefer to identify as African over Arab.
I'd much prefer to identify with the place where I inhabit, the place I want to learn and know.
(Like I said, presidents prefer to identify themselves with widely supported policies, even those that are scraped from the bottom of the barrel marker "Totally Obvious").. CORRECTION: My bad, Joe Wilson's outburst came during Obama's 2009 address to a joint session of Congress, not a State Of The Union address.
Since this hypothesis was tested on Australian students, who prefer to identify with moderate groups, the context-specific expectation was for that preference to disappear under uncertainty.
(Local hunters and fishermen, whom Coptis sees as some of her best potential allies, prefer to identify themselves as "conservationists").
That's more than can be said of many public figures who prefer to identify as "humanists".
Now, DP assemblymen prefer to identify with the pact's presumed losers, such as rice-farmers, who will remain shut out of American markets.
Viewers generally prefer to identify with the innocent, the lucky and the brave, rather than with the monstrous but no less human perpetrators of crimes against humanity.
One might prefer to identify facts with sets of worlds (this is what is done in Restall 2004).
