Cultural Identity Right

Cultural identity right

Introduction

The concern for the being of man, his identification and identity, has been present in the writings of the most relevant thinkers in history and has not ceased to be a recurring theme to this day, becoming an essential problem of philosophy from the’Know yourself’ by Socrates to Freud.

When migrants reached their country of destination and the expectations deposited about them converged in the integration and assimilation of the majority culture there was no room to talk about identity and much less identities, because there is no need to ask about the identity itself when there isA clear consensus continuously offered to all individuals with hardly any alternatives. In this way, identity remains linked to the social place of birth with hardly any possibility of construction or negotiation.

Developing

The concept of identity indicates equality with something: "This is identified with that" means that they are identical to some extent. In the specific case of cultural identity, it is pointed out that the cultural elements with which a person has a special link tends to be the same that characterize a certain culture. There are numerous criticisms that come to question this cultural withdrawal of Western societies and even the same importance of cultural identity, which is sometimes perceived as a racist strategy that replaces the concept of person with identity abstraction.

There are also some conceptual agreements that, in their proximity, allow to articulate, in general terms, the concept of cultural identity.

As Parés points out, this phenomenon should not be considered as a uniform and static, unitary and homogeneous expression. This means that there is a plurality and natural evolution in the cultural identity that is not debatable, but that it has in its deepest structure, content that sets its stability and allows to account for a defined sense of belonging. From another perspective, Goffman, assumes that the vital uniqueness of human beings contrasts with the multiplicity of Ies that exist in the individual from the perspective of the social role.

conclusion

In this conceptual context it begins to be clear that cultures and their identities do not definitely develop in states of isolation, but on the contrary, they evolve from a communication with the difference, with what is culturally beyond the border, be itWhatever its nature. As Woodward points out, identities are built from others, in which the stranger or the other realize a vital difference in the author recognition and generation process of the sense of belonging.

As Cuche expresses, the social identity of the subjects is articulated through their links with social systems that in turn is built through multiple subsystems such as politicians, sexual, religious, economic, among others. Thus, recognizing the brands of belonging that individuals have regarding a culture, we recognize that the identity construction process is fluid and heterogeneous.