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Who Are You?

Who Are You? A song by The Who and a question asked of Alice by the caterpillar; ‘who are you?’  Most people answer by saying, well I’m Joe Blow or whatever name was given to them at birth. So we are given an identity in the form of a name. We are more or less given a body with genetics that supposedly determine our physical characteristics. Beyond this, we are informed, educated as we grow up that we are human, we belong to a particular race and have a nationality. Our race and nationality have many more defining parameters that are added to our identity. We can be informed that we are like different other people; family members, friends and other miscellaneous individuals in society. We are educated to have certain traits or behaviors acceptable in our society. We can be given a purpose from our parents, usually or sometimes other older individuals and it can even go so far as to giving us a spouse not of our choosing. It is the more rare individual...