this is the paragraph
In his book In the Name of Identity,
Amin Maalouf explores how violence can
erupt between different groups of people
when they limit the definition of their identity
to only one facet of their being. This belief
that an individual is defined essentially by
their nationality, race, language, or religion
“presupposes that ‘deep down inside’
everyone there is just one affiliation that
really matters, a kind of ‘fundamental truth’
about each individual, an ‘essence’
determined once and for all at birth, never to
change thereafter” (2). This, Maalouf
explains, is “a recipe for massacres” (5). A
Christian who grew up in Lebanon and later
moved to France, Maalouf has personally felt
the conflict that can exist between different
elements of a person’s identity. Quite simply,
he writes that people “often see themselves in
terms of whichever one of their allegiances is
most under attack” (26). Recalling the nights
he spent with his pregnant wife and young
son in an air-raid shelter, Maalouf knows that
“fear might make anyone take to crime” (27).