Not Like You (2023)

We asked more than 60 people from London to respond to questions regarding who they are, and the way they perceive themselves and their behaviour according to societal standards. The aim - to pair up strangers with similar social identities and to see if their perception of themselves holds after meeting each other.Social identity refers to the ways that someone's self-concept is based on their membership in social groups. So, our questions were around race/ethnicity, gender, social class/socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, (dis)abilities, and religion/religious beliefs. Caroline and Carrie were selected - on paper they were a matching pair - both middle-class white British women coming from two wealthy neighbourhoods, the same job and income, the same political opinions, the same sexual orientation and experiences, the same religious beliefs and some interesting common experiences in work-life and even personal behaviour. Will these two strangers, who in their mind's eye have a mirror-imaged social identity, get to know themselves better through meeting each other?