Cultural Identity

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Originally Posted by osho

Cultural identity is something most want to build up unthinking it finally leads to a sort of combativeness. This is something that walls you against the rest and the other party too builds a wall to secure their cultures and that is why in a multicultural country like America every cultural trying to establish is likely to fight with the rest.

Culture in itself is not bad but the aftereffects of culture can imperil a country.

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What is your view of nations that remain extremely (but not wholly) homogeneus, for example Japan, Iceland, and Norway(still fairly homogeneus).

Are these countries more functional, more orderly, less inner conflict because they are homogeneous and share similiar basic values? Would the average joe citizen of these countries want significant "diversity" in their countries after they have seen the possible advantages and disadvantages in countries that promote extreme diversity?

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Originally Posted by osho

Cultural identity is something most want to build up unthinking it finally leads to a sort of combativeness. This is something that walls you against the rest and the other party too builds a wall to secure their cultures and that is why in a multicultural country like America every cultural trying to establish is likely to fight with the rest.

Culture in itself is not bad but the aftereffects of culture can imperil a country.

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I have found your opinion too much of extreme. Cultural identity is a part of our identity and we can’t deny it. It is human nature and belonging is an important aspect of our well being. It also gives us strengths. There are cultural differences and it is nothing wrong about that. For example, if we look at Slavic or South European and Northern European we see distinctive differences in terms of emotionality and its expression.
I live in a town that is multicultural. People tend to stay within own culture or culture that resembles their own. We want to be around like minded people. Secondly,some cultures are more closed than others. I see if a free choice with whom we want to associate and not as a sort of combativeness. :wink5: