Ever since the 1960s, photography has been searching for a "true", or self-defined, identity, and an analysis of "false", socially prescribed, identity. "True" identity must be sought and gained, "false" identity must be exposed and overcome. The Dream of Myself grapples with the problems: Who am I? Who defines me? How free am I? How can I find myself?
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For both, their individual diasporic experiences contributed in a major way to their reformulation of, and challenge to, the pressures of socially prescribed identity: that of nationhood, gender, sexuality, age-appropriate behavior, and so forth.
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The prescribed identity, in the economical or political sense, is making us to its slaves.

在经济或政治意义上，规定了的身份，使我们成为了它的奴隶。