Talk:Cultural identity

This mess of an article needs two things: 1) Severe copy editing in regards to paragraph and section breaks, and 2) a great reduction in technical jargon.

Agree. Someone with a severe case of culture theory (and no username and talk page) is doing the editing. I'm interested, because I went to grad school in anthropology back in the old days of "bounded cultures" and eventually rejected the whole field as an excresence of nationalism. There's some interesting ideas here, but too much cant is being propounded as THE TRUTH. No history, no other points of view.

I agree that this page is a single, limited, view of an extremely troubled and hardly "well-defined" concept. I am not sure how much work such a potentially bogus concept as "cultural identity deserves", however.

Would anonymous care to identify him or herself and we can work on this together? Zora 11:57, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

— JIP | Talk 10:34, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

WP:OR removal

Unless any registered editor strenuously objects, I'm going to remove all the lengthy original research from this article, reducing it to a stub. Sandstein 04:32, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Agree. Is it possible to note that the idea deserves some attention, but not to approach it in this weird way? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.235.240.35 (talk • contribs)

Yes, by marking it as a stub and by referring to this discussion in the edit summary. Sandstein 04:46, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

OK, I've done it. Sandstein 04:34, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

It at least needs a part about Quebec and their "distict society."

description

Hi all, the current text of the description reads:

There are modern questions of culture that are transferred into questions of identity. Various cultural studies and social theory investigate the question of cultural identity. In recent decades, a new form of identification and with pieces broken off from the individual as a coherent whole subject. Cultural identity remarks upon[clarification needed]: place, gender, race, history, nationality, language, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnicity and aesthetics.

I propose to change it to:

There are modern questions of culture that are transferred into questions of identity. Various cultural studies and social theories investigate the question of cultural identity. In recent decades, a new form of identification has emerged. This new form of identification breaks down the understanding of the individual as a coherant whole subject to a collection of various cultural identifiers. These cultural indentifiers examine the condition of the subject from a variety of aspects including: place, gender, race, history, nationality, language, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnicity and aesthetics.

However, i am far from an expert in cultural identity - does anyone want to comment on the new text before it goes up? Also, still relies on some statements that read terribly generally ex. "In recent decades, a new form of identification has emerged" Darigan (talk) 11:58, 9 November 2009 (UTC)