From: Emma Brockes, "Salman Rushdie: ‘A lot of what Trump unleashed was there anyway,’"The Guardian
Image from article, with caption: "Taking on America … Salman Rushdie."
“In America when you talk about identity issues, at the moment a lot of that is gender identity. If you’re in England, there’s this other argument about national identity, which was behind the Brexit catastrophe; and in India, when people talk about identity, they’re really talking about religious sectarianism. In all three places, the identity subject is colossal but it is understood completely differently. ”