"unifying identity" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a common sense of self or belonging that brings individuals or groups together. Example: "The country's diverse population found a sense of unity through their shared values and unifying identity as citizens of the nation."
MTV's viewers, a generation desperate to disassociate themselves from their baby-boomer parents, had no unifying identity: the civil-rights movement and Vietnam were their parents' struggles.
In contrast to past precedents such as the creation of Israel or Liberia, it is not obvious that "refugee" would be a sufficiently strong unifying identity to encourage disparate populations to live together.
From his 1981 debut, A Good Man in Africa, onwards, he seems constantly to have been searching for a unifying identity across different fictions, trying to make sense of a life comprising a brutal public-school education, Africa in wartime, Oxford (where he did a PhD on Shelley), literary London and New York glamour: to a large degree, the plot of Any Human Heart.
Minutemen (anti-immigrant vigilantes), birthers (who deny that Obama was born in the US), Promise Keepers (Conservative Christian men), Oath Keepers (military and police, retired and current, who vow to resist unconstitutional government "by any means necessary"), Fox News watchers, Glenn Beck lovers and Rush Limbaugh listeners who had no unifying identity before.
Each subgroup brandishes its religious or ethnic identity to confront the other subgroup in a futile war, in which all will lose … In short, the fall of Arabism as a unifying identity will mark the start of a series of civil wars among brothers.
More than a decade after the Americans removed Saddam Hussein from power and dissolved his army, the reconstituted military lacks a unifying identity and professionalism, and is riddled with corruption.
These networks have outperformed and replaced the value of company websites by unifying identities, connecting social and interest graphs and being seamlessly integrated with each other.
The poem consists of a series of scenes in which the narrator acts out various roles, seemingly a necessary therapy for a young man still searching for some authentic, unified identity.
It's a inevitable trend to establish a enterprise unified identity management system to provide single sign-on among the application systems.
Cross-Device Retargeting is a big step toward unified identity, allowing businesses to know if a web and mobile visitor are the same person even if they aren't logged in.
In the realm of culture in particular, they held out a further hope: the pursuit of a "union" would require the construction of a unifying Gulf identity -- an inclusive narrative, woven from the region's diverse ethnic and religious strands, to imbue the peoples of the Gulf with a sense of common purpose.
