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A 3 page paper which examines points from Aihwa Ong’s Flexible Citizenship and Nicole Constable’s Romance on a Global Stage concerning transnationalism. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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point when much of the world can no longer remain isolated from other nations, other cultures, and other influences. The world, in all honesty, has become a much smaller place
and people are moving around in various ways, seeking new forms of identity in relationship to culture, and seeking new ideals that could be considered multicultural. The following paper examines
two points concerning transnationalism as seen in Aihwa Ongs Flexible Citizenship and Nicole Constables Romance on a Global Stage. The points examined are homogenous identity and the future concerning children.
Relationships and Transnationalism Homogenous identity is essentially something that many cultures experienced in the past, when a culture could rely
only on its own local culture for ones identity. But, with the world becoming a smaller place, and people being influenced by many other cultures, a homogenous identity is all
but impossible in todays world. Constable (2003) notes such a reality when noting the following: "The landscapes of group identity - the ethnoscapes - around the world are no longer
familiar anthropological objects, insofar as groups are no longer tightly territorialized, spatially bounded, historically unselfconscious, or culturally homogeneous" (Constable, 2003; 33). In this Constable is clearly indicating that the world
has changed and a culture cannot be examined like it once was, through history or anthropological study. Ong makes a statement that addresses the same reality, but focuses on
the Chinese, stating, "What are the effects of cultural accumulation in a cross-cultural, transnational arena where there is not one but many sets of competing cultural criteria that determine high
symbolic value in multiple class-and race-stratified settingz? For Chinese emigrants operating in Western metropolitan circles, symbolic values are set not only by Paris but also by London, Berlin, New York,
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