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Cultural identity

Cultural identity
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Overview

identity or feeling of belonging to a group

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  1. A tribe that can enforce such a process is not likely to be wanting in one side, at least, of the moral consciousness, namely, reverence for authority and regard for the social welfare.[30]

    John Dewey, Ethics

    Close in meaning to Cultural identity; the term itself is not named.

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  2. This new world culture possesses two distinctive characteristics. The first of these consists in a growing indifference to the State as such.

    Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind

    Close in meaning to Cultural identity; the term itself is not named.

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  3. There is found a _self_-brand, just as there is found a herd-brand. Each brand, so far, is the mark, or cause of our knowing, that certain things belong-together. But if the brand is the _ratio cognoscendi_ of the belonging, the belonging, in the case of the herd, is in turn the _ratio existendi_ of the brand. No beast would be so branded unless he belonged to the owner of the herd. They are not his because they are…

    William James, The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1

    Close in meaning to Cultural identity; the term itself is not named.

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Place in the tradition

Part of Conservatism.

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