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'Cultural identity' is the (feeling of) identity of a group or culture, or of an individual as far as he is influenced by his belonging to a group or culture. Cultural identity is similar to and has overlaps with, but is not synonymous with, ''identity politics''.

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Description

There are modern questions of culture that are transferred into questions of identity. Various cultural studies and social theory investigate the question of cultural identity. In recent decades, a new form of identification and with pieces broken off from the individual as a coherent whole subject. Cultural identity remarks upon: place, gender, race, history, nationality, sexual orientation, religious beliefs and ethnicity.
Some critics of cultural identity argue that the preservation of cultural identity, being based upon difference, is a divisive force in society, and that cosmopolitanism gives individuals a greater sense of shared citizenship.^[1] That is not to say that cultural identity must always be divisive. When considering practical association in international society, states may share an inherent part of their 'make up' that gives common ground, and alternate means of identifying with each other. Examples can be taken from both old and contemporary world order. In the old world order European states shared a high level of cultural homogeneity, due to their common history of 'frequently violent relationships, and Greco-Roman cultural origins' Brown also argues that the Western invention of the nation-state has proven to be an appealing and homogenising factor to many cultures. ^[2]

See also

;General: globalisation, Cosmopolitanism, Self-concept, Self-determination, liberalisation, demos
;Identity: Social identity, identity concerns, multiple identity
;Culture: Cultural diversity, Intercultural competence, cultural conservatism, Transculturation
;Politics: Diaspora politics, Identity politics, Pan-nationalism, libertarian, conservationism

External articles and references

Citations and notes

1. ''The Limits of Nationalism'' by Chaim Gans. ISBN 9780521004671 ISBN 0521004675
2. C Brown (2001) ''Understanding International Relations''. Hampshire, Palgrave

Books and publication

★ Tan, S.-h. (2005). ''Challenging citizenship: group membership and cultural identity in a global age''. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate. ISBN 0754643670

★ Bunschoten, R., Binet, H., & Hoshino, T. (2001). ''Urban flotsam: stirring the city'' : Chora. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers. ISBN 9064503877

★ Mandelbaum, M. (2000). ''The new European diasporas: national minorities and conflict in Eastern Europe''. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press

★ Houtman, G. (1999). ''Mental culture in Burmese crisis politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy''. Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. (library.cornell.edu). ISBN 4872977483

★ Sagasti, F. R., & Alcalde, G. (1999). ''Development cooperation in a fractured global order: an arduous transition''. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre. ISBN 0889368899

★ Crahan, M. E., & Vourvoulias-Bush, A. (1997). ''The city and the world: New York's global future''. New York: Council on Foreign relations. ISBN 0876092083

★ Hall, S., & Du Gay, P. (1996). ''Questions of cultural identity''. London: Sage. ISBN 0803978839

★ Cable, V. (1994). ''The world's new fissures: identities in crisis''. London: Demos. ISBN 1898309353

★ Berkson, I. B. (1920).''Theories of Americanization a critical study'', with special reference to the Jewish group. New York City: Teachers College, Columbia University.

Further reading

★ Robyns, Clem (1995). "Defending the national identity". In Andreas Poltermann (Ed.), ''Literaturkanon, Medienereignis, Kultureller Text''. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag ISBN 3-503-03727-6.

★ Robyns, Clem (1994). "Translation and discursive identity". In Clem Robyns (Ed.), ''Translation and the Reproduction of Culture''. Leuven: Cetra. Also in ''Poetics Today'' '15' (3), 405–428.

★ Anderson, Benedict (1991). ''Imagined Communities''. London: Verso.

★ Gellner, Ernest (1983). ''Nations and Nationalism''. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

★ Bourdieu, Pierre (1980). "L'identité et la représentation". ''Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales'' '35', 63–70.

★ Gordon, David C. (1978). ''The French Language and National Identity (1930-1975)''. The Hague: Mouton.

★ de Certeau, Michel; Julia, Dominique; & Revel, Jacques (1975). ''Une politique de la langue: La Révolution française et les patois''. Paris: Gallimard.

★ Balibar, Renée & Laporte, Dominique (1974). ''Le français national: Politique et pratique de la langue nationale sous la Révolution''. Paris: Hachette.

★ Fishman, Joshua A. (1973). ''Language and Nationalism: Two Integrative Essays''. Rowley, MA: Newbury House.

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★ Woolf, Stuart. "Europe and the Nation-State". ''EUI Working Papers in History'' 91/11. Florence: European University Institute.


★ Stewart, Edward C.; Bennet, Milton J. (1991). ''American Cultural Patterns''. Intercultural Press, Boston, MA.

Websites

★ Sounds Familiar?Visit this British Library website to listen to different accents and dialects across the UK as a form of cultural identity

★ Food Stories — Explore a century of revolutionary change in UK food culture on the British Library's Food Stories website