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The knowledge that one’s country terrorized a minority to the point that its members had to flee, or that a substantial share of one’s forebears arrived in defeat and panic, is not exactly an inspiring source of national identity.
For the people of Poland, John Paul II, by making human rights the central subject of his teaching, will forever be the man who gave us courage and hope, who restored our historical identity.
It was conservative in its absolute fidelity to evangelical values, to the truth of faith, to its historical identity.
The French Republican model asserts that all French citizens have the same cultural identity.
Indeed, this is the only acceptable identity.
To achieve this shared identity, all citizens have to speak the one official language and be educated according to a common curriculum.
However, so long as second- and third-generation minority citizens are taught that the only acceptable cultural identity is French, but are not in fact accepted as French – indeed, are blocked from enjoying the full rights of French citizenship – the Republican model will fuel alienation rather than democratic integration.
The ANC’s identity as the party that liberated South Africa from the scourge of apartheid in 1994 has delivered it every election since.
To be sure, reforms are – and always will be – subject to harsh criticism, with old Kemalist elites clinging to the unitary and secular republican tradition and Kurdish nationalists seeking to eliminate all expressions of Turkish national identity from the political culture.
And transgender people still commonly receive medical diagnoses that turn identity into pathology.
These huge demographic upheavals are irrevocably transforming the region’s social and political identity.
Indeed, throughout the region, warring parties are relying on sectarian identity politics to mobilize support, further polarizing populations along religious, ethnic, and ideological lines.
Even in countries not at war, poisonous identity politics is becoming increasingly widespread and accepted.
Brazil coordinates closely on defense matters with its neighbors, both bilaterally and through Unasur’s South American Defense Council, which aims to promote confidence-building, transparency, a joint regional defense industry, and, most important, a common defense identity.
Nor did they come like the American or Australian settlers in order to build a new identity and assimilate the natives into it.
Zionism aimed at renewing and deepening an old identity.
From the beginning, there was no intention to damage the identity of the native-born Arabs, or to merge it with the traditional Jewish identity.
In other words, the Jews, who based their identity in the diaspora on mythological memory and time, were now returning to its clear-cut elements: a territory defined by borders, and a detailed chronological understanding of their own history.
Israel is effectively demanding the disappearance of Palestinian identity.
Circumcision has been an integral part of the cultural identity and religious faith of a large portion of the world for thousands of years.
As the United States has historically shown, tolerance means upholding a broader definition of people’s right to practice religion, or otherwise express their cultural identity, according to their beliefs, while withholding judgment on whether such beliefs are “right” or “wrong.”
Sports can also strengthen social relationships, by bringing together people from different backgrounds and creating a sense of shared purpose and identity.
Two months before the S&ED, the US Department of Justice indicted five officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on 31 counts of charges ranging from computer fraud and hacking to identity theft and economic espionage.
To them, an independent India, freed after nearly 1,000 years of alien rule (first Muslim, then British) and rid of a sizable portion of its Muslim population by Partition, is obliged to embody and assert the triumphant indigenous identity of the 82% of the population who consider themselves Hindu.
Hindu “fundamentalists” are, instead, chauvinists, whose religious faith is rooted not in any of Hinduism’s profound philosophical and spiritual underpinnings, but in its role as an alternative source of collective, if not “national,” identity.
Most leaders gain support by appealing to the existing identity and solidarity of their groups.
Contrast Mandela’s efforts to teach his followers about a broader identity with the narrow approach taken by Robert Mugabe next door in Zimbabwe.
Are they stretching Americans’ sense of identity as best they can or just appealing to their narrowest interests?
After the rollback of the Ottoman Empire and the resurgence of historical and ethno-nationalist identities in the Balkans, Macedonia was divided between Greece, Bulgaria, and Serbia, and its people’s own inchoate identity was suppressed.
But they view their Islam as part of their Iranian identity, whereas the older clerics viewed Islam as a universal revolutionary identity.
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