...unless we are talking about actions (rather than labor, work, people, race, political affiliation, class, religion, color, groups, nationality, polarization, generalizations, simiplifications, &c). Our actions define us, not the other stuff.

(As discussed in Hannah Arend't 'The Human Condition')

[EDIT: I appreciate that outgroups and the 'other' sometimes use their 'otherness' in political discuscorses, or they use the 'race card' or 'victimhood card' or similar, and that those are indeed 'actions'. I would agree that this is a major problem, but would argue that this is not taken too seriously by the majority in most cases.]