Cultural Idintities
Introduction
Cultural identity refers to the identity elements of a group of people or a particular culture, or even an individual who belongs and influenced by a certain group or culture. Different current cultural researches and social theories have examined cultural identity. Recently, a new type of identification has appeared which analyze the recognizing of the individual as a integrated subject within a collection of different cultural identifiers. These cultural identifiers might be the fruit of diverse conditions involving: history, gender, sexuality, language, religion, race, ethnicity and nation. However, The divisions between cultures may be very fine in particular parts of the world ( that the citizens have different ethnics and social community is supported by shared social values and beliefs) , in places such as the United States or Canada. The cultural researches view on race and ethnicity certainly affirms the influences of the intersections of ethnicity, race and class. However, it has aimed to avoid the curtailment of these forms to class and the capitalism functions. As an alternative, cultural studies has tended to examine: the representation of cultural meanings of race and ethnicity, race and cultural politics, and finally the relationship between class, race and gender(Barker, 2008)..
This essay will explain and discuss the idea that cultural identities are not fixed but have histories and undergo transformation in relation to race and ethnicity. The essay will be focused on ethnicity and race as categories of cultural identity. Indeed, it is the examination of the degrees of race and ethnicity in terms of identity that imparts the cultural studies method its typical edge.
Main body
Firstly, The meaning of the word race carries the traces of its origins in the biological claims of social Darwinism that intensify 'types of people ' and 'lines of descent '. Here the concept of race attribute to ostensible physical and biological
Cultural identity refers to the identity elements of a group of people or a particular culture, or even an individual who belongs and influenced by a certain group or culture. Different current cultural researches and social theories have examined cultural identity. Recently, a new type of identification has appeared which analyze the recognizing of the individual as a integrated subject within a collection of different cultural identifiers. These cultural identifiers might be the fruit of diverse conditions involving: history, gender, sexuality, language, religion, race, ethnicity and nation. However, The divisions between cultures may be very fine in particular parts of the world ( that the citizens have different ethnics and social community is supported by shared social values and beliefs) , in places such as the United States or Canada. The cultural researches view on race and ethnicity certainly affirms the influences of the intersections of ethnicity, race and class. However, it has aimed to avoid the curtailment of these forms to class and the capitalism functions. As an alternative, cultural studies has tended to examine: the representation of cultural meanings of race and ethnicity, race and cultural politics, and finally the relationship between class, race and gender(Barker, 2008)..
This essay will explain and discuss the idea that cultural identities are not fixed but have histories and undergo transformation in relation to race and ethnicity. The essay will be focused on ethnicity and race as categories of cultural identity. Indeed, it is the examination of the degrees of race and ethnicity in terms of identity that imparts the cultural studies method its typical edge.
Main body
Firstly, The meaning of the word race carries the traces of its origins in the biological claims of social Darwinism that intensify 'types of people ' and 'lines of descent '. Here the concept of race attribute to ostensible physical and biological
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