Diversity And Identity

Diversity and Identity based on perspective of Nation, Culture, and State

The term diversity means the differences in racial or ethnic classifications, age, gender, religion, philosophy, physical abilities, socioeconomic background, sexual orientation, gender identity, intelligence, mental health, physical health, genetic attributes, behavior, attractiveness, or other identifying features. Nowadays people seeing the issues of diversity not as a thread, but a reason to respect each other. For example, "Respect for Diversity" is one of the six principles of the Global Greens Charter, a manifesto subscribed to by Green parties from all over the world. Another example is that some political creeds promote cultural assimilation as the process
to lead to these ends.
Identity is an umbrella term used throughout the social sciences to describe a person's conception and expression of their individuality or group affiliations (such as national identity and cultural identity). The term is used more specifically in psychology and sociology, and is given a great deal of attention in social psychology. The term is also used with respect to place identity. Identity is a social as well as a personal phenomenon: commonalities and difference in identity shape as well as are shaped by social situations.
In many resources dealing with identity, work on the different communities or ‘groups’ with which each people identified as a natural progression from exercises on how they see themselves as individuals. Identity means seeing and feeling oneself to be a part of something, some organization, or else. Being a part of a nation, raised and applied some culture in life, or being a part of some states.
In real life the multiple identities a person has are rarely considered as a problem, especially in megapolitan cities or countries, which is an excellent way to prevent the issues regarding the existence on different identities of people. To varying degrees, individuals experience a certain amount of ambiguity in their sense of identity and conflicts of loyalty between the different ways in which they define themselves or the way they are defined by others, means that they already feel like one nation, even though they came from different culture or race. This differs from person to person. While there are some people who experience no sense of incompatibility between national and other identities, there are a significant number of people who do. We can see it clearly in some city in Indonesia, in which people still seeing other people with different culture. But in Jakarta, the differences between those identities are rarely seen, because Jakarta is a big city, covered with different people with different cultures, but they see themselves as one (that’s why Jakarta is called as a megapolitan city).
Diversity is not without its problems, however. It is important for people to have opportunities to explore some of the real problems associated with diversity and increasing diversity in society, as well learning to value the differences they seen in other people around them. Yet there are quite a number of citizenship resources where diversity is portrayed as essentially unproblematic – either by ignoring the problems or deliberately downplaying them.

Problems found regarding to Identity and Diversity
Modern life ascribes to us a multiplicity of subject positions and potential identities which hold the prospects for historically unparalleled human development, but they also represent a predicament that threatens fragmentation and psychosis – terrifying in their lack of personal, collective and moral boundaries.
In this postmodern, 'wide-open' world our bodies are bereft of those spatial and temporal co-ordinates essential for historicity, for a consciousness of our own collective and personal past. 'Not belonging', a sense of unreality, isolation and being fundamentally 'out of touch' with the world become endemic in such a culture. The rent in our relation to the exterior world is matched by a disruption in our relation to us. Our struggles for identity and a sense of personal coherence and intelligibility are centered on this threshold between interior and exterior, between self and
other. 'A person’s sense of local identity can be very powerful, sometimes more powerful than their identification with a particular ethnic group, religious community or country.
For many older people who have lived and worked in the same place all their lives, the sense of place can be very important. But it can also be very important for young people too – especially those whose closest identifications are with other young people in the same area, and is probably a factor in the phenomenon of ‘gang culture’. While there is a great deal of support material encouraging young people to become more active participants in their local communities through volunteering or campaigning. But somehow, this thing could rouse the issues of diversity, in which people will be more individually, and seeing each of us a different
society.
Regarding to the diversity and national/state identity, we could also add something like Patriotism. Patriotism means to love one’s country and has a willingness to defend, and even to die for it has traditionally been thought of as one of the central civic virtues and is closely related to the concept of national identity. And nowadays we can found resources looking in any significant detail at how patriotism relates to other kinds of bad attitude towards nationality such as jingoism, xenophobia, and chauvinism. Jingoism representing the feelings of loving one’s country excessively. Someone with jingoism dislikes or even hates other nations, their cultures, and even their people. Xenophobia means the feelings of disliking towards something new or foreign matter. People with xenophobia might hate foreigners, because they see foreigners as a strange or unusual matter. And also, they hate other culture/nation besides theirs, because those seem strange for them. And Chauvinism means the feelings of loving a country/nation in an excessive way, in other words, we could say that a Chauvin person have a big patriotism feelings (a true patriots). Those people with those attitudes or feelings will absolutely harm other people and even a nation. They will seem to have individual feelings, love their own country, don’t accept foreign people or even their culture, what they want is that there should be only one nation/country existed.