What does it mean to 'identify as' something?
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To identify as F (woman or man, Greek or Jew, slave or free), is to believe that were I not F, I would not be.
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“I identify as x” means, I think, that you would want other people to treat you as they treat other people who have social role x.
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To get a little wiggly feeling at some concept or word that translates approximately as, "yeah, that's me. I'm that. When I think about that, I can identify myself as being that."
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It's who you believe or feel you are at your core. If you can't relate to how society identifies you then the person you believe you are is who you identify as
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Example: I identify as an internet-culture-90s-nerd. It means that there are a set of assumptions that I'm happy to encourage people to have about me, since they are directionally accurate and accelerate the development of our relationship
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