Caltrop Matrix of Identity
Figure 3. The integration of the factors in the two causal models by CMI
Individual
Traits
Spiritual
Attributes
Social Norms
Institutional
Rules
Context
(Topography)
History
(Time)
Power (G-
Force)
Resistances
(Fluidity)
Ethnic
Chinese
Chinese
ethnicity
Schizophrenic
Characters
Gratified
emotion in
economic
status quos
Lack of
unified
religion and
ethnic unity
Segregated
Community
Cooperators
of the
dominating
Politically
Marginalized
Settled
Sojourners
Minority
Traumas
Humiliations
Alien and
Diaspora
Marginalized
Economic
primary;
political
secondary
Evacuation
Dominating
Indigenes
Indigenous
ethnicity
Opportunists
Insatiable lust
for wealth
Indigenous
unity and
group
membership
Privileged
Institutional
boundaries
of ethnicity
Aboriginality
Self-claimed
representativ
es of the
majority
Divide and Rule
Dominance
Economic
affluence
Political
powerful
Conspiracy
Dominated
Indigenes
Indigenous
ethnicity;
Bully nature
Frustration,
depression,
and oppressed
energy
Jealousy
Credulity
Shared
ethnic
membership
with the
dominating
underprivileged Ethnic unity
with the
dominating
Aboriginality
The majority
Poverty
Dominated
Impoverished
Oppressed
Riots as
Political
Expression
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