The Western world is having an identity crisis.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.
Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.
Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.
I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
Materialism is an identity crisis.
There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.
The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.
There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.
A leaderless but powerful network is working to bring about radical changes in the United States. Its members have broken with certain key elements of Western thought, and they may even have broken continuity with history... this benign conspiracy for new human agenda has triggered the most rapid cultural realignment in history.
We're a nation in search of an identity, but it's quite exciting. I don't regard it as a problem. It's a challenge.