Stuart Hall, in his work of “Cultural Identity and Diaspora”, expressed his two different ways of thinking about cultural identity. His first way of thinking “defines cultural identity in terms of one, shared culture, a sort of collective ‘one true self’, hiding inside the many other, more superficial or artificially imposed ‘selves’, which people with a shared history and ancestry hold in common” (Hall, 223). As for his second way, he states that it “recognizes that, as well as the many points of similarity, there are also critical points of deep and significant difference which contribute ‘what we really are’; or rather—since has intervened—‘what we have become’” (Hall, 225). Personally, I agree with both of his perspectives on cultural identity. Culture in general is a shared experience amongst a people and as a result, identities relating to that culture will also be shared, collective under one or even many groups. At the same time, those very groups can have differences that contribute who we are individually. Culture nowadays, as Valverde mentioned in class, has become a salad bowl of sorts, where more and more aspects of different aspects of different cultures are now mixed but still maintains their individuality in some way shape or form.
Q: How does one navigate and cope with any discontent when it comes to negotiating one’s cultural identity?
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Hall, Stuart. "Cultural identity and diaspora." Diaspora and Visual Culture. Routledge, 2015. 35-47.
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