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This 10 page paper discusses how cultural policies may help to create a sense of national unity. The paper uses a range of theories and concepts including those which look at the creation of maintenance of individual and collective identities, the role of shared values and heritage, the presence of ‘invented traditions’ the impact of diversity and the way tar cultural policies may utilize these concepts to develop policies that help create a positive national identity and encourages national unity. The bibliography cites 13 sources.
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conflicts. National unity is a phenomena that is seen often at times of conflict when all citizens have a common enemy and may be associated with a high level of
nationalism or a strong feeling of national identity. It may be argued that during the world wars there were strong feelings of national unity, among many of the same populations
are present today. However, in looking at back the phenomenon of national unity is may be argued that the feeling and manifestation was not homogenous, different communities would
have divergent values and heritage could vary between communalities as well as between those of different ethnic backgrounds. Heritage is an important aspect of a persons personality and the context
within which they see themselves (Bilton et al, 2003). In the past, with the lack of the internet and poorer communication the diversity would have been greater as there
was less opportunity to create shared values, and even with the same country, such as in the UK, it was possible to see a number of languages. Therefore, unity does
not mean that there are the same values and ideas, but that it is a form of shared value or desires or even simply a shared feeling of community which
is aided by a common enemy. The increased fragmentation that has been seen today is partly due to the way in which there are a number of pressures increasing internal
rather than external enemies. It may be argued that terrorism is a common enemy, but it is also an internal enemy which creates increased distrust and supposition, which are barriers
to unity and to the creation of a national identity which is able to embrace difference and divergence. If these feelings of unity and national diet can be influenced by
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