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I was thinking maybe both forms of identity narrative will coexist in the future. The more cosmopolitan kids in today's schools have post-ethnic attitudes while learning about and sometimes honouring the ethnic narratives of their great great great grandparents.He says it's not his field.
Culture informs history. For example The Romans failed to understand Iceni women could inherit. They failed to understand a ruler became like a god or goddess & could be a priest or priestess as well. Hence when they attacked Boudicca they attacked a whole culture & set of beliefs & they reaped a whirlwind.
It's why I dislike papers like this. Everything becomes super abstract & fails to take into account we're discussing real people with thoughts & emotions & belief systems that inform their actions that become our history & culture. We could go back on forth with this for forever. I prefer to deal with the known facts, such as they are ~ but as I was saying to @BY Bob the other day, I'm a non~ sequential learner. I'm happy to work with a jig~saw of information & slot facts in as they arrive & change things if necessary. The fact is people, for whatever reasons, do identify with regions, ethnicities, peoples. That may be right or wrong but it's what people do. Bit like chickens really. Like calls to like.