I will focus this blog on Stuart Hall's second view on cultural identities. He says that this second position recognizes the significant difference of present and past in terms for the formation of cultural identity. Hall points out that this is a way to understand the colonial experience. In today's society, while Hall used the example of Caribbean blacks, Syrian refugees are experiencing the United States as a colonial power. The Republicans at the moment are trying to filter the refugees: allowing only Christians refugees but not the Muslims. Clearly, some people in the government thinks that their idiotic ideas for Islamophobia can make America a better place. Indeed, a lot of them refuse to recognize that the Syrians are running away from terrorists groups. Nonetheless, the presence of Syrian and Afghan refugees in the United States is a beginning for their cultural identity. Their displacement from the homeland and their journey to the US and other countries are a continuation of their history.
What are the implications of having a dynamic cultural identity?
This represents a cultural identity. We see little, but there are a lot of factors that involves the formation of cultural identity.
Reference:
Hall, Stuart. “Cultural Identity and Diaspora.” Identity: Community, Culture, Difference. Jonathan Rutherford. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1990. p. 222-237. Print.
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