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 The text " We all are many "  by the hand of A. Sen, brought us to interesting thoughts. After the Transnational meeting in November 2009 in Heusden-Zolder ( were we commented on eachother in a funny / amusing and artistic way ), all participants had to comment on themselves as "European Citizens".

Here, some results of this creative session :

Amartyra Sen stresses the essential plurality of human beings and how the undermining of this plurality lies behind most of the worlds’ most violent conflicts.

(cfr. ‘Making Worlds’, catalogue Venice Biennale 2009).

In fact, we are all many, and this is important to remember.

Amartyra Sen points out that today human beings tend to be defined in terms of their religious identities, ignoring the numerous other factors that combine to make a person who he or she is.

This results in a reductive “miniaturization’ of man that proves the ground for tensions between groups. Instead of viewing ourselves and others in terms of a singular identity, we should remember that each and everyone of us carries a multitude within. In that sense, Sen emphasizes, we are all many: “ The same person can be, without contradiction, an American citizen, of Caribbean origin, with African ancestry, a Christian, a liberal, a woman, a vegetarian, a soccer fan, …