The History Of The World In The Context Of Cultural Identity

In the development of productive forces and the promotion of general communication, national boundaries are broken. Different ethnic groups and countries will be included in the pattern of world development, this means that the human overall development era has coming, and the history has gone into the world history. The process of world history eliminated the intimate relationship between the culture and the particular district, formed a flow cultural space. In this space, the culture spread rapidly. A large number of cultural and lifestyle showed in front of the people. On the one hand, this revolution of cultural communication can get a broader living space and expand the culture’s ability of communication; On the other hand, this rapid movement cultural space is full of the contents and symbols of Western culture, which has become a strong tool for cultural expansion. Aggressive Western culture has inspired the awakening of cultural consciousness. All ethnic groups and countries are thinking about how to resist the violence of homogenization and universal in the process of world history, and how to maintain their own particularity and difference; at the same time, they also seeking the measures to adapt to the world historical process, and join into the world culture. The“identity”and“differences”nature of the cultural identity exactly can not only arouse the collective sense of belonging to the same cultural patterns, but also can link different people and societies which have different cultural traits, therefore cultural identity’construction and integration nature has aroused widespread concern in the social field.The context of world history is a field in which we can experience time and space, self and others, special and common, difference and identity. The various conflicts and integration in this field have shaped our concern and understanding of cultural identity. Cultural identity urged people belonging to different life-world with distinctive cultural character to meet the alien culture and the challenges of world culture; cultural character is the fundamental qualities of an ethnic or cultural community which showed out of through the accumulation and continuation of the history. Cultural characters reflect the continuity, unity and stability of the national spirit. Establish a unique "self-image" and the value system can enhance the internal strength of our own lives in order to resist the wave of the "generalization". However, cultural identity can not just stay in the level of self-awareness and self-assurance, only express the established culture can not reflect the subjectivity; we also need self-development and self-perfection on the basis of the self-awareness, and then create a dynamic development new self through the negative criticism. But the creation is not freewheeling; every culture has an established cultural tradition runs through the historical process of cultural development, this tradition is both the starting point of cultural creation and the fundamental end-result of self-improvement, and it always affect the culture’s innovation and evolution. We constantly create new forms of life, new culture, new value in the development of the times, this innovation is not to become another person, but to confirm self and return to self. Return to self is the process of the negation of negation, in this process we absorb other people’s outstanding achievements and marked with ourselves-soul. Culture identity is just the eternal process of negation of negation, in this process we recognize self, create self and return to self.Cultural tradition is the stable lifestyle which experienced social changes and historical evolution, it strengthens self-awareness and self-identity, it also makes the nations and states can grasp an exclusive self“unchanged”in the economic and technological“changes”. Value is the soul of culture, it guides a nation’s survival and development, and it’s also the basis for cultural identity. Culture identity needs specific and special value to give its meaning. Religion as an objective social force can heal the trauma brought by the vagaries of modern. Give full play to the religious identity’s function of moral education, can better serve the construction of the spiritual home. Cultural identity in different areas all played the important roles in maintaining the vigor and vitality of culture.Combination of historical, present and future requirements, establish own position in a multicultural world through cultural awareness; show the superiority of our culture through economic prosperity. Identify self with full self-confidence and identify others with harmonious but different in the universal communication. We should create a harmony and diverse world cultural landscape which consider the interests of all mankind.