Cultural identity

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Cultural identity is the (feeling of) identity of a group or culture, or of an individual as far as she/he is influenced by her/his belonging to a group or culture. Cultural identity is similar to and has overlaps with, but is not synonymous with, identity politics.

Some critics of cultural identity argue that the preservation of cultural identity, being based upon difference, is a divisive force in society, and that cosmopolitanism gives individuals a greater sense of shared citizenship.^{[citation needed]}

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Anderson, Benedict (1991). Imagined Communities. London: Verso.
Balibar, Renée & Laporte, Dominique (1974). Le français national: Politique et pratique de la langue nationale sous la Révolution. Paris: Hachette.
Bourdieu, Pierre (1980). L'identité et la représentation. Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 35, 63–70.
de Certeau, Michel; Julia, Dominique; & Revel, Jacques (1975). Une politique de la langue: La Révolution française et les patois. Paris: Gallimard.
Fishman, Joshua A. (1973). Language and Nationalism: Two Integrative Essays. Rowley, MA: Newbury House.
Gellner, Ernest (1983). Nations and Nationalism. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Gordon, David C. (1978). The French Language and National Identity (1930-1975). The Hague: Mouton.
http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/paksoy-7/ IDENTITIES: how Governed, Who Pays? (full-text)
Robyns, Clem (1994). Translation and discursive identity. In Clem Robyns (Ed.), Translation and the Reproduction of Culture. Leuven: Cetra. Also in Poetics Today 15 (3), 405–428.
Robyns, Clem (1995). Defending the national identity. In Andreas Poltermann (Ed.), Literaturkanon, Medienereignis, Kultureller Text. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag ISBN 3-503-03727-6.
Woolf, Stuart. Europe and the Nation-State. EUI Working Papers in History 91/11. Florence: European University Institute.