Earlier this year, I recapped The Americans, the FX television show, for Project Fandom. Fun little side project. A big through line this season was identity. How we see ourselves, how we portray ourselves to others, how others see us. With this theme percolating in the back of my mind, I began seeing it everywhere. Other television shows, movies, books, life. Just the other day someone asked me to think about my core values. “What makes you, you?”
I was a bit stymied by this. I can tell you my ethnicity and how as I was raised. I can list personality traits. I can explain the what and why of my beliefs. I can go on and on about my passions, hopes and dreams. But are any of these things who I really am? Does my being equal the sum of its parts? It’s an existential question that…
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