Deracination
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- For criticism, see Criticism of Deracination ideology
Deracination is removal of a person or people from their cultural environment. For example, the capture and enslavement of African peoples during the slave trade which resulted in a general loss of tribal cultures and languages. As applied to individuals it may refer to separation from their traditional group and environment. Deracination could occur as the result of any kind of displacement, including conquest, occupation, exile, transportation, or cultural or racial assimilation.[1]
It has sometimes been alleged that Cosmopolitanism, the view that one is a citizen of the world, promotes deracination.[2] It does weaken existing cultures but it seeks to replace them with a cosmopolitan culture.
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Notes
- ^ "Diasporic Deracination and "Off-Island" Hawaiians" J. Kēhaulani Kauanui The Contemporary Pacific - Volume 19, Number 1, Spring 2007, pp. 138-160
- ^ "The Dream of Deracination: The Uses of Cosmopolitanism" Ross Posnock American Literary History - Volume 12, Number 4, Winter 2000, pp. 802-818
