This sense of multiple identities is something that Sen himself highlighted mischievously in his book Identity and Violence The same person can be, for example, a British citizen, of Malaysian origin, with Chinese racial characteristics, a stockbroker, a non vegetarian, an asthmatic, a linguist, a bodybuilder, a poet, an opponent of abortion, a bird watcher, an astrologer, and one who believes that God invented Darwin to test the gullible.