... The first position views cultural identity in terms of one shared culture, reflecting typical historical experiences and shared cultural codes. ... The second view relies heavily on the individuals experience of their culture. Through this view, culture is always changing; it is not static as claimed by the first definition. Far from being eternally fixed in some essentialised past, they are subject to the continuous play of history, culture and power.
We all write and speak from a particular place and time, from a history and a culture that is specific to us, in other words from a position of enunciation. ...
Culture is socially transmitted and if not passed on, will be forgotten, and hence will cease to exist. Through the media, culture is constructed and by analysing these cultural identities we attempt to explain our past, and ourselves therefore continuing our existence. A national culture is the whole body of efforts made by a people in the sphere of thought to describe, justify and praise the action through which that people has created itself and keeps itself in existence.
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