ABSTRACT
Our text for this chapter is the underexamined notion of self-continuity (i.e., the art of
counting one’s self only once), and our purpose is to bring out both common and
distinctive ways in which young persons, representative of markedly different cultures,
usually succeed, but occasionally fail, in somehow regarding themselves as one and the
same numerically identical individual despite their awareness of often dramatic personal
and cultural change. The point of our rehearsing these matters is to use them as a way of
drawing attention to what we judge to be better and worse ways of dealing with the
recurrent culture versus transculture polemic that crosscuts the whole of this volume.
