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According to the text, what is identity?
Identity is about belonging, about what you have in common with some people and what differentiates you from others.
What are stereotypes?
Stereotypes are lively but simplistic representations that reduce individuals to a range of exacerbated and generally negative characteristics, through processes of symbolic power.
What factors have contributed to the recognition of identities that contradict stereotypes?
Factors such as diaspora, transnationalization of economy and culture, globalization, migration, emigration and immigration, and cultural hybridization have contributed to the recognition of identities that contradict stereotypes.
Identity is about belonging, about what you have in common with some people and what differentiates you from others. At its most basic it gives you a sense of personal location, the stable core to your individuality.
According to Jeffrey Weeks, identity provides a sense of personal _____.
Social factors have an impact on our sense of identity in a complex variety of ways.
The learning of social identities includes a set of expectations, rules, rights, and obligations assigned to individuals by their society and _____.
Stereotypes are lively but simplistic representations that reduce individuals to a range of exacerbated and generally negative characteristics, through processes of symbolic power.
Stereotypes are created through processes of symbolic power and reduce individuals to a range of _____ characteristics.
In today’s world, we recognize identities that contradict stereotypes and go well beyond the borders of the nation state.
Factors of cultural hybridization such as diaspora, transnationalization of economy and culture, globalization, migration, emigration, and immigration have contributed to the recognition of identities that contradict _____.
Culture exists only when its actors take it to the stage. Therefore, we have to reject those static interpretations that reduce culture to a closed and definite text, with a single reading and an absolute value.
Culture is not a closed and definite text, but rather has an _____ of cultural readings.
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