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Dr. Appiah's Contributions To My National Identity

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National identity is defined as a sense of a nation as a cohesive whole, as represented by distinctive traditions, culture and language umbrella to this concept is the role of customs and traditions. Underlying in these concept is the object of culture as this is demarcated by a composed of beliefs, norms, behaviors and products common to the members of the particular group. It is also given that culture also influences our social development as seen from my upbringing and how I would differentiate this culture to my outside culture living in a Western country. These customs and habits have formed a culture relevant to my society which contributes to my national identity as a Pakistani. Appiah and the role of cosmopolitanism as he distinct …show more content…

Diversity happens since we are plagued with our own cultural traditions and norms, in this realm Appiah solution is conversation and he have also mentioned on the ownership cultural artifacts the latter may pose a challenge since as the world expands so does the number of identities people may claim to. This diversity of identities that individuals consider their own can only be enhanced if they have tangible tools or objects to link to link them to those …show more content…

Dr. Appiah advocates is simple: the power of conversation yet broadly enough it is in the language as a tool of exchanging and evaluating stories and opinions which allows us to align our responses to the world. Conversation does not necessarily means to yield to consensus but is is a way of allowing people to get used to one another. Juxtaposed with the silence offered by relativism, conversation is a more effective method for breeding tolerance. As Dr. Appiah suggested that despite the difference of our diversity, conversations will show that we have commonalities and therefore these will be our point of entry. In line with these concept the desire to eliminate differences is not the prima facie sign of cosmopolitanism but the ideal is to temper the respect for difference with a respect for human beings. Its prescriptive element therefore does not just preach tolerance but also generates obligations towards strangers which is as we know the challenge in our “selfie” generate on and to the diverse society. What I see in this approach is what the Catholics and even with us Muslims is to care for our brothers or “brotherhood” since it subjectively shows that we all have moral obligations to others on the other side of the world because they are also

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