A huge amount of who I am and what I enjoy is shaped by the subculture and microculture around me.

That's okay. That doesn't make it any less real.

Maybe in other hypothetical contexts I wouldn't have ended up as a glow-loving fox-kin, but this is the context I actually inhabit. Culture makes us who we are.

To put it more concisely:

Ontological and cultural-memetic explanations of identity are non-exclusive and I think that's really cool.

No, more than cool, I think it's *liberating*.

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