Roosevelt's Identity

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The degree to which Maalouf would disagree with the statement that Roosevelt made would be comical. The first part of Roosevelts statement doesn’t stray too far from what Maalouf believed. The ability to go to a new place and to take on part of their culture as your identity fits into the idea that Maalouf presents in his book, that our identity can change as we experience new things. The example that Maalouf gave in his book In the Name of Identity stems from his own life experience by being half French and half Lebanese. By looking at this fact of Maalouf’s life in the lens of the first half of Roosevelts quote we can see that by moving to France he was able to, as part of his identity, refer to himself as at least half French. However, the

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