Hall narrates that young immigrants of today are always fragmented, puzzled, decentered and unbenefited ( 355). Immigrants after changing their identities remain puzzled and lost. They have lost their self in the process of shifting identities.
3.3 The first position
Hall in Cultural identity and Diaspora gives two ways to understand identity. In the first position he defines identity as one shared culture and similarities amongst a group of people and the second position includes both similarities and differences amongst a group of people/immigrants, and moreover in this position identity is a matter of being and becoming (223). In this first position Hall focuses on similarities between people of a group. It emphasizes on one essential thing “oneness” the most basic of people (112). It is defined as “one shared culture”, collective and as one self which is true (225). Here self is hidden under many layers, it is hidden under many artificial ‘selves’. People share the same experiences of history and ancestry. According to this position of identities, he highlights same experiences of people about history. They provide us oneness, present people as “one” with fixed, the unshifting and the constant structure of meanings. Now Hall explains this position is applicable to understand feminism and anti-colonial context, but the second position is more appropriate to unveil the real trauma of people with shifted identities (223).
3.3.1 The second position Hall argues that in this