What is your identity?

Its actually pretty simple. Answer this question. Who are you?
>I am Anand. This label was given by my parents. If I wish, I can go to court and change it to whatever I like
>I am a Mudaliar. This speaks about my past. It does not stand the test of modern times. Caste names were given on the basis of occupation. For e.g my forefathers were weavers. Since parents were the only teachers in old times, it was natural for the children to follow in the footsteps of their parents. Not anymore. My current occupation is IP Telephony Engineer. My dad is a physician. My children could be anything. But its my past and I accept it
>I am a Pondicherrian, one from Pondicherry. With the current level of mobility I can easily be a Chennaite or a Santa Claran.
>I am an Indian. I can easily become an American. My dad was Indian. My grandfather was a British Indian. My great grandfather was a citizen of the Maratha kingdom in Thanjavur. One of my great grandfather could be a cholan, citizen of the mighty chola empire.
>I am a Hindu. I can convert to Christianity or Buddhism or Islam.
>I am a Tamil. Its my mother tongue, some of the few things that cannot be changed in this ever changing world. No matter what we are called, what our occupations are, which places we come from, which passports we carry, which God we pray to. Tamil is the one thing that bonds a tamil in Malaysia, in Ceylon and in Tamil Nadu together, all 70 million of them.
We are unique in that we place our language above our Gods.
But remember, true brothers are the ones who think alike.