If the only way for you to find identity or resuscitate identity is the hell of war or social schisms based on who is reactionary and who isn't, then you must be hell itself and you have no real culture or identity. But, maybe you have the right accent but you confess to being an immigrant.    Everybody knows you have the authority to be magnanimous or maleficent.  Did you hear the one about a government land office employee who took a job offer in an envelope addressed to her son, made 12 copies and gave it to everyone in her association and also to ten neighbors; just to feel authority? She said she saw her mother do it to her Pastor father so that the mother would feel authority.