Kwame Anthony Appiah
HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur speaks to Kwame Anthony Appiah, an academic and public intellectual who says we need to rethink identity to escape the myths of the past. But how?
What gives each of us our sense of who we are? At the most personal level we all have our own family background. In the most general sense we are, all of us, part of the human species. But it's the stuff in between that puts us in groups or tribes and often motivates our behaviour. Gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality - these are the persistent fault lines that seem to separate us from them. HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur speaks to Kwame Anthony Appiah, an academic and public intellectual who says we need to rethink identity to escape the myths of the past. But how?
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'My job is not to tell people what to do'
Duration: 02:34
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Interviewer | Stephen Sackur |
Interviewed Guest | Kwame Anthony Appiah |
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- Mon 3 Dec 2018 04:30GMT91热爆 News except UK & UK HD
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