They are you; they are a part of you, but they are not all of you. They are as much you as your foot or your eye is you. You are not an atomic entity.

Perhaps I should have written “to not identify with them” just like you rarely identify your core self as your foot.

If not you, what do you think they are?

You do not need to identify with them. They come and go like the wind. They are no more “you” than your hair on the barber shop floor.

I see now from your other answer what you meant, I thought you had meant not you in some sense of being externally created or imposed.