You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- You can belong both to the group and be an outsider at the same time.
- In plain terms
- You can be inside and outside a group.
- What can you take from it?
- Identity can be dual.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you reconcile belonging and independence?
Another view
It may cause inner conflict.
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