We don’t derive our individuality from some combinations of collective identities like sex, race, social class, vocation, nationality, or religion. In contrast, we have only one important sense of personal identity that is imbued in us in our earliest childhood. We are coming from one context only, the sense of place.
The question of identity, of who i am, is resolved in me as a child by being the full implication of where i am.
Personality is that connection, an extension of that childhood place. We are its stuff of existence. This life potential of land. Our mothers carries a life whose essence belongs to this place, and in that sense, a child’s identity will become determined by his or her’s place of derivation. It is that child’s self-sustaining and imagining substrate.
Life is this becoming of an annexation of that place.