Hamish - How I see 'The Other'

This is just a rough sketch of an idea. The background goes as follows:

1) People identify with a number of different groups and communities, Some are deliberate memberships (e.g. our musical tastes), some 'accidental' (e.g. our sex). Some are visible others harder to discern. Some are of particular social and legal significance (e.g. race), others are less so, but may be more central to a person's sense of self (e.g. musical ability). How do I see the other in my day to day? How do I see the other in my work on the England and Wales census? Who, what lies behind each datum collected in this rigid and strict (but important) way of defining ourselves?

2) In Being and Nothinness, Jean Paul Satre discusses the notion of 'Bad faith' when a person defines themself by their occupation, social, racial or economic class etc.

Sartre states that in order to get out of bad faith, we must realize that our existence is distinct from our formal projection of a self.

Satre also writes that other people (and indeed the possible presence of other people) makes us stop being the centre of our own universe and forces us to look at ourselves as an object - to see our world as it appears to the other. The other person is a 'threat to the order and arrangement of your whole world...Your world is suddenly haunted by the Other's values, over which you have no control.'

How I see the other and how the other sees me forces us both into a continual existential conflict between our subjective being and the objectification of other people's definitions of us.