Write a short piece about your own social identity. Drawing on this, answer the following question: 'Critically evaluate the claim that 'collective social identities are both inclusive and exclusive'.

Initially this essay will focus on the aspects of my social identity that I have chosen to write about, which are 'race' and ethnicity. This will then be followed by drawing upon these two dimensions of identity to discuss the explicit claim that collective social identities are both accepted and (r)ejected, but, any satisfactory analysis of this claim restricts the number of societies and realms of social life that I can look at. Therefore, …

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