Hi,

One reading suggestion:

https://www.google.com.br/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=8&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiVuezOyNTKAhWDfZAKHROjBUEQFghIMAc&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.4236%2Fojml.2013.33028&usg=AFQjCNHOD1TpLLJr_mKq5vWVYofom1Fn3g&sig2=kjeAR37DTrmX_EqbrKYEpA&bvm=bv.113034660,d.Y2I

Hello, 

Here is another one, I have done my Master's thesis on subject related to cultural identity, so these readings actually helped me determine my standpoint in clearer way.

Here is another one by Hussein Altas.

Thank you Mr  Felipe Kupske for the article!

Thank you Mr Wafa Mansoor Buriro for the articles!

salamat Masoumeh

I hope the attached paper will help you

Aref

Thank you Mr Aref abu-rabia and Mr Adel M. Alharbi for the articles!

Dear Masoumeh and Adel

Attached 4 papers on identity

salamat

Aref

"Immigration, acculturation and adaptation" by John Berry is a good one. It is the lead article of a Special Issue of Applied Psychology on the topic of acculturation. It was useful for me at that time (1997), and still introduces relevant conceptual clarification.

http://www.ucd.ie/mcri/resources/Dermot%20Ryan%20Reading.pdf

Thanks again for the articles Mr Aref abu-rabia!

What book are you talking about Petek Nebiye Kurtboke?

You may want to refer to my article: 

Nathan, G. (2015). A non-essentialist model of culture: Implications of identity, agency and structure within multinational/multicultural organizations, International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, Vol. 15 (1).

Also, my book:

Nathan, G. (2010). Social Freedom in a Multicultural State –Towards a Theory of Intercultural Justice, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 

Thank you Mr Ganesh Nathan for the references!

Thank you Mr Isidro Jariego for the article!

You may be interested in the following journal articles recently published.

Tian, M., & Lowe, J. A. (2014). Intercultural identity and intercultural experiences of American students in China. Journal of Studies in International Education, 18(3), 281-297. doi:10.1177/1028315313496582

Sykes, B. E. (2014). Transformative autoethnography: An examination of cultural identity and its implications for learners. Adult Learning, 25(1), 3-10. doi:10.1177/104515

Kim, S. (2014). New Media, English Language Learning, and Intercultural Identity. TESOL Journal, 5(1), 156-158. doi:10.1002/tesj.1299513510147

Wan, C., & Chew, P. Y.-G. (2013). Cultural knowledge, category label, and social connections: Components of cultural identity in the global, multicultural context. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 16(4), 247-259. doi:10.1111/ajsp.12029

Toomey, A., Dorjee, T., & Ting-Toomey, S. (2013). Bicultural identity negotiation, conflicts, and intergroup communication strategies. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 42(2), 112-134. doi:10.1080/17475759.2013.785973

Fielding, R., & Harbon, L. (2013). Examining bilingual and bicultural identity in young students. Foreign Language Annals, 46(4), 527-544. doi:10.1111/flan.12051

Stuart Hall's work would be my go-to source. In the Modernity reader he edited with David held and others, there is a chapter The Question of Cultural Identity (http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Hall-Identity-Modernity-1.pdf).

Thank you Mr Ping Yang for the comprehensive references!

Thank you Ms  Joke Hermes for the attachment!

Dear Masoumeh,

I wonder if the following resources would interest you:

http://psp.sagepub.com/content/22/3/238.short

http://bmb.oxfordjournals.org/content/69/1/129.full

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1414713/

Thank you Mr Stephen Cheung for the interesting articles!

Masoumeh -

Reading through all the answers you have received, it seems that you already have more than enough material to keep you occupied for quite a long time.

Anyway, another writer who seems relevant to your initial question is Oswald Spengler, who highlighted several distinct cultural units which have flourished during human history, including the (present) west-European/American one – along with various others whose “golden age” occurred in past centuries …> for example, those which developed in Persia/Arabia, in India and in China. If you have not heard of Spengler, it would be quite a task for you to read and digest the contents of his two-volume book – but I attempted to summarize his thesis in http://DLMcN.com/oswaldspengler.html

… and subsequently tried to focus on the different styles of mathematics which appeared in some of those High Cultures – see http://dlmcn.com/spengmaths2.html

And yes, you are right – it is indeed possible for certain individuals to successfully “cross over” – i.e. to be born in one culture and then transfer into another one. For instance, there are notable examples of Asians mastering Western music to the extent of becoming famous concert-level pianists or violinists.

Good luck with your research !

http://DLMcN.com/oswaldspengler.html

http://dlmcn.com/spengmaths2.html

Dear Mr David Mc Naughton,

Thank you so much for your insightful explanations and  summaries. I am sure they will help me to understand and explore this area of research in more depth. 

You might want to look at a golden oldie, although its a book rather than an article:

Ethnic Identity: Strategies of Diversity by Anya Peterson Royce (1982, Indiana University Press).

Its an old reader-friendly classic that holds up over time.

For a look at a modern revival of imperial colonialism imploding modern Hispanic identity in New Mexico, you could look at my essay:

Neulander, Judith.  "Conjuring Crypto-Jews in New Mexico: violating ethnic, scholarly and ethical boundaries" in Boundaries, Identity and Belonging in Modern Judaism, eds. Maria Diemling and Larry Ray. London and N.Y.: Routledge (2016) pp. 208-225.

Hope that helps!

Hi,

If you're able to read french articles, the follonwing could interest you :

- Grinberg L, Grinberg R. Psychanalyse du migrant et de l’exilé. Lyon : Césura Lyon Édition, 1986 : 292 p. 

- Revah-Lévy A, Pradère J. Questions de culture : devenir dans la migration. In : Baubet T, Moro MR, eds. Psychiatrie et migrations. Congrès de Psychiatrie et de Neurologie de Langue Française. Paris : Masson, 2003 : 123-125.

- Trouvé JN, Liauzu JP, Calvet P, Scotto JC. Aspects sociologiques des troubles de l’identité dans la pathologie de la migration. Ann Med Psychol 1983 ; 141 (10) : 1041-1061. 

- Yahyaoui, A. (dir.) Identité culturelle et situation de crise. Grenoble : La pensée sauvage ; 1989

Concerning some other english written references (besides the ones my collegues have mention) :

- Adam McKeown, Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, and Hawaii 1900-1936, University of Chicago Press, 2001 - 349 p.

- Dinesh Bhugra, Migration, distress and cultural identity, Br Med Bull (2004) 69 (1): 129-141. doi: 10.1093/bmb/ldh007

- DINESH BHUGRA and MATTHEW A BECKER, Migration, cultural bereavement and cultural identity, World Psychiatry. 2005 Feb; 4(1): 18–24. (linked below)

- Ronald Inglehart & Wayne E Baker, Modernization, cultural change, and the persistence of traditional values, American Sociological Review; Feb 2000; 65, 1

Hope it can be helpful,

Christophe

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1414713/

Thank you for the references and the article Mr. Christophe Gibout!

I concur with the Stuart Hall recommendation for theory of postcolonial creolization/creolite. For concrete examples,

*Duvalier's Noirisme in Haiti (M. J. Smith's "VIVE 1804! The Haitian Revolution and the Revolutionary Generation of 1946" in Caribbean Quarterly 50/4 (Dec., 2004);

*Trujillo in Dominican Republic (R. L. Turits' "A World Destroyed, a Nation Imposed" in 2002 Hispanic American Historical Review 82/3, Aug. 2002);

* Norman Manley (Rex Nettleford's "Manley and the Politics of Jamaica" in Social and Economic Studies 20/3 Sep. 1971) and Michael Manley in Jamaica (D.A. Dunkley, "Hegemony in Post-Independence Jamaica" in Caribbean Quarterly 57/2 June 2011);

* For indigenous Caribbean, a now-classic is Neil Whitehead's chapte  "Black Read as Red" in Matthew Restall's "Beyond Black and Red" collection (U of New Mexico, 2005);

*For African/Atlantic, James Sidbury and Jorge Canizares-Esguerra's "Mapping Ethnogenesis in the Early Modern Atlantic" in The William and Mary Quarterly 68/2 Apr., 2011.

 Thank you Mr Kevin C Young for the comprehensive references!

I also recommend Andreas Wimmer`s work on boundary making (several articles and books). It provides a constructivist approach to ethnic and cultural identity from a cultural sociolocal perspective.

One of the best ways to address this question is to examine whether the masses of immigrants who have arrived in Europe have acquired a "new cultural identity and somehow may feel a sense of belonging to that specific culture."

I think that immigrants in small numbers will be assimilated to a new culture far more readily than immigrants in large number who are likely to create their own ethnic enclaves, as has happened all across the Western world. In the case of Muslims, there is a wilful intent on their part not to assimilate to host culture, but in fact a wilful intent to gradually go about imposing themselves on the host culture, the more so since European nations are ruled by elites that don't show any pride in the nation's heritage but celebrate diversity. 

Mass immigration into Europe has been a disaster, bringing endemic rape of white women by immigrants, particularly Muslims, permanently high unemployment levels among African and Muslim groups, massive welfare costs to sustain the immigrants, and lower educational results. 

Given these realities, it is quite absurd to be talking about integration, or "sense of belonging"; yes, they have a sense of belonging, they don't want to go back to their failed cultures in the Third World, but they are not "belonging" in Europe, but instead destroying European identity. 

Cultural identity is the identity or feeling of belonging to a group. It is part of a person's self-conception and self-perception and is related to nationality, ethnicity, religion, social class, generation, locality or any kind of social group that has its own distinct culture. We begin to see how aspects of our culture have shaped our beliefs and behaviors. Individual characteristics such as gender, age cohort, and race, as well as physical and intellectual abilities and disabilities, interact with cultural and subcultural factors such as class, education, religion, and occupation to produce our unique identities.    

 www.niusileadscape.org/docs/FINAL...cd/.../OP_cultural_identity.pdf

I don't know if this is helpful but Dr. William Cross has a Minority Identity Model:

A Model of Minority Identity Development

The key concepts in minority identity development models include the personality identity and social identity development components. The identity change process is seen as dynamic and involves re-socialization and nonlinear movement through the various levels of development. The five levels of individual minority identity transformation include: (1) Pre-encounter; (2) Encounter; (3) Immersion–Emersion; (4) Internalization; and (5) Internalization–Commitment.

writing out otherness deals with the need for self-transforming identities see my article

Arjun Appadurai and Homi K Bhabha are two Indian names one can associate with culture and identity.. Then of course there is Stuart Hall, Paul du guy...

I don't know if this is helpful but I have some articles about cultural heritage  and educational heritage in a European and pedagogical  perspective.

How can we comunicate and share our culture in Europe ? 

You can see this that are written in English : 

- FELGUEIRAS, Margarida Louro,“Sharing European Cultural Heritage”, in FERREIRA, António Gomes & FELGUEIRAS, Margarida Louro(org.); Buildings telling European Heritage. Pedagogical Perspectives. EubuildIT: a proposal for teachers and students. Coimbra, Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX – CEIS XX, 2008.

- FELGUEIRAS, Margarida Louro; “Educational Heritage: The School Buildings. A travelling through the times and cultures”, in Claudia Saccone (ed.), ICT and communicating cultures.Roma: Aracne Editrice/Università degli Studi del Molise, 2004, pp. 255-260;

- FELGUEIRAS, Margarida Louro; SOUSA, Leonor; “The museums and the cultural construction of childhood”, in KARPPINEN, Seija (ed.); Neothemi. Cultural heritage and ICT. Theory & Practice, Studia Paedagogica nº 32, Helsinquia: University of Helsinki, Department of Teacher Education, 2004, pp. 165-174;

 - FELGUEIRAS, Margarida Louro; EDUCATIONAL HERITAGE IN A VIRTUAL MUSEUM, in KARPINEN, Seija (ed.), Studia Paedagogica, n.º 28, Helsínkia, 2002. 

Dear Masoumeh,

I wonder if the following resources would interest you:

Best wishes for you.

Best regards,

Hiep from Vietnam

Thank you Mr NGUYEN Trung Hiep for the wonderful resources!

Clifford Gertz and also the work of Marcel Maus offer useful ideas about cultural identity.

Thank you Mr Hiep. You have a wonderful collection of resources. How about acceptance of cultural diversities of minorities by the majority of the population in a country? My country, India, follows the  theme "Unity in Diversity" since its independence in 1947, yet there is existence of intolerance till  now on small issues like food habits and brutalities take place on the same. This is more prominent in other countries which are carried out with orthodox religious sentiments and sometimes on misinterpretation of religious thoughts, which have become the burning issue across the world. Can you suggest any scholastic writing on the issue of peaceful co-existence between culturally diverse population?

Warm regards,

Ranadhish, Calcutta.

I suggest this:

Anderson, Benedict (1991): Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism 

Giddens, Anthony (1991): Modernity and self-identity: self and society in the late Modern Age

Goffman, Erving (1975): Stigmate: les usages sociaux des handicaps 

Halbwachs, Maurice (1997): La mémoire collective 

Scott, John (2011): Conceptualising the social world: principles of sociological analysis

I find the concepts of intersectionality and critical race theory helpful. Delgado and Stafancic offer a good introduction:

https://uniteyouthdublin.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/richard_delgado_jean_stefancic_critical_race_thbookfi-org-1.pdf 

Please use the book of Samovar "Communication between Cultures". There is a whole chaperonne about cultural identity. Very interesting. 

Wish you good luck.