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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?

30 minutes

Last on

Wed 5 Dec 2018 18:30GMT

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Interviewer Stephen Sackur
Interviewed Guest Kwame Anthony Appiah

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