http://dadtrends.com The best of the Dad-O-Sphere Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:40:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.greatdad.com/dadblogs/2010/03/08/john-doe-berg/ http://www.greatdad.com/dadblogs/2010/03/08/john-doe-berg/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:47:34 +0000 Joshua Lewis Berg http://www.greatdad.com/dadblogs/?p=1663 I lost my identity. I was born identifying as a middle class white Jew. I no longer identify religiously nor do I identify as being white. My own family is “mixed” and, as I have come to understand, race identification is only a consequence of prejudice anyway. I am part of a human family. So, I lost the identity I grew up with or rather, I dissociated from it. Am I worse off? I don’t think so. In fact, it is quite the opposite. I now have an identity that is truly my own rather than pushed onto me by family and society. Having said that, I do realize others may identify me differently than I do myself and some of the things I am today are also things assigned to me.

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