Identity similarity is interactionally achieved, not a matter of actual sameness.

Evidence

In all these contexts, Stuart is careful to recognize that identity is always something constructed in discourse rather than some given sociological or biological essence that preexists representation. … He is also very clear about the extent that identity, far from being a matter of self-creation, is, rather, best understood as something constructed in and through a dialogic process—in which individuals attempt to develop a sense of their identity in (sometimes conflictual) interaction with identities thrust upon them by others. … Thus, elsewhere, Stuart talks about how “at different times in my 30 years in England, I have been hailed or interpellated as ‘coloured,’ ‘West Indian,’ ‘Negro,’ … ‘immigrant’ … sometimes abusively, sometimes in a friendly manner, sometimes ambiguously.” — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 23 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Language-identity links are ideological, not natural — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction: A…, 50; Identity relations involve more than a single sameness-difference axis. — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction: A…, 71; Adequation can be applied by speakers to position others as alike for political ends. — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction: A…, 79 (+7 more)

Related

• Identity is constructed through discourse and dialogic interaction, not self-creation (similarity 0.87)
• Identity is both a source of agency and increasingly constructed rather than given (similarity 0.86)
• Cultural identity is a forward-directed production, not a recovery of origins (similarity 0.84)
• Identity relations involve more than a single sameness-difference axis. (similarity 0.84)
• Identity can only be understood through difference, never self-sameness (similarity 0.82)
• Identity analyses should combine multiple dimensions rather than foreground one (similarity 0.82)
• Identity theories lag behind the linguistic research that has made identity central. (similarity 0.81)
• Language-identity links are ideological, not natural (similarity 0.81)
• Becoming a subject requires prior subjection to discourse (similarity 0.81)
• Identity is contradictory, multi-discursive, and constructed across the other’s silences. (similarity 0.80)
• Identity is positional and processual, never reducible to one fixed position (similarity 0.80)
• Identity emerges in discourse rather than preceding it (similarity 0.80)
• Identity is internally mediated by the non-identical (similarity 0.79)
• Identity is constituted by context and asserted only as a partial account. (similarity 0.79)
• Diasporic identity is multiple, layered, and contextually activated (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Identity is constructed through discourse and dialogic interaction, not self-creation #corroborates (0.90) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 23
• Identity is constructed through opposition to a continuously reinterpreted other #corroborates (0.85)
• Identity can only be understood through difference, never self-sameness #corroborates (0.82) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1189
• Identity is formed through contrast with difference #corroborates (0.82)
• Identity is constituted through splitting and an interiorized Other, not pure difference. #qualifies (0.82)
• Identity is constituted through exclusion of what it is not #corroborates (0.80)
• Identity is constituted through relation to what is other and different from itself #corroborates (0.78) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 378