In an e-mail, Mr. Schmidt, of Google, suggested that Michigan Corps might reflect a new trend of identity-based giving in the digital age.
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.
I think that perhaps – in their own tasteless, Scream pub kind of way – these internet trends offer some kind of identity to people.
In fact, the TS score is the InC multiplied by the Z-score and, given the stable trend of InC over different identity cut-offs, we expected TS to improve upon InC in any identity range or, at least, to behave similarly.
The election of Donald Trump surely reflects a broader trend, an embrace of the politics of identity and fear, of the idea of "them" and "us"; a rejection of globalisation and a further unravelling of the post-second world war 1945 settlement; a move toward walls, and against openness.
On Inauguration Day, Michelle Obama will become the first African-American to assume the role of first lady, a woman with the power to influence the nation's sense of identity, its fashion trends, its charitable causes and its perceptions of black women and their families.
The trend was toward greater individuality of expression, of emotion, and of identity, leading eventually to true portraiture.
Many samples had changes below 5% and investigation of individuals with changes above 5% showed that there was no trend of genotypes with a higher sequence identity to the probe having a higher frequency in the FACS-enriched sample, than in the control sample.
How could Rorty have celebrated the rise of identity politics in the university while also deriding the major trends in critical theory as illiberal and decadent?
His gender-blending could be construed as an acceptable version of identity politics by a segment of the art world that otherwise disdained the trend.
