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This article looks at the way in which individuals express their identity both in terms of abstract, even mythical, stability and, at the same time, in terms of the multiple variations that each individual allows himself thanks, no doubt, to these benchmark abstractions - the nation, the ethnic group, the group - that peoples give themselves to attest to their belonging to a general entity. Here's the question: is the interplay of global convergences - belonging to a nation or a people - possible without 'breathing', in other words, without individual divergences?