Russian doll? They are one inside another.
<span>The answer is identity foreclosure. It is a phase of
self-identity finding in which an individual has an individuality but hasn't
explored other choices or ideas. Most common in young adolescents, in this
stage the individual has just embraced the traits and qualities of parents and
friends.</span>
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<span>The collapse of communism and the rise of ethnic strife plunged the southern fringes of the former Soviet Union into turmoil, particularly in the Caucasus where some 1.5 million people had been forced from their homes in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.</span></span>