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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2015  
         
  Article:   PRESERVİNG AND TRANSCENDİNG ETHNİC IDENTİTY AS A MEANS OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTİVE EMPOWERMENT .

Authors:  ROXANA MIHELE.
 
       
         
  Abstract:   Preserving and Transcending Ethnic Identity as a Means of Personal and Collective Empowerment. Considering that most societies nowadays live under the sign of globalization and wide-spread consumerism, one may justly wonder whether the distinct ethnic and/or national identities will retain their importance in the years to come, whether people will still look to their old language, religion, traditions, and myths for guidance. I believe that these elements are still strong enough to generate a sense of kinship, empowerment and comfort given by common identity, which may help each person find the values, he/she needs to confront an impersonal bureaucratic, money-driven, shallow society.

Key words: (symbolic) ethnicity, ethnic groups, multiculturalism, identity, the postethnic perspective, tradition
 
         
     
         
         
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