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Cultural (dis)identification

4 important questions on Cultural (dis)identification

What can lead to depersonalization or deindividuation?

Group membership can offer the ability to bypass inter-individual differences in groups.

Why is cultural categorisation complex?

As cultural background is not necessarily an indicator of expected behaviour and vice versa.

To what do globalisation processes lead?

To categorical identities becoming less clear-cut or well understood as acts of categorisation.

What do the discourse structures of cultural categorisation and resisting membership clearly demonstrate?

Cultural and linguistic diversity does not form a threat to mutual understanding in these Erasmus 2.0 groups. Cultural categorisation is not necessarily used as an indicator of expected behaviour and resisting membership leads to downgrading the relevance of a cultural category and emphasisng similarities. Both structures thus attribute to creating unity despite diversity.

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Unity in Super-diversity

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