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CHAPTER-III PROMOTING CULTURAL IDENTITY
I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated ( Alice Walker).
Traditionally, all global citizens regardless of their identity consciously and intuitively use their lens figuratively, metaphorically, philosophically, and symbolically to enunciate their testimony within Shades of a Global Culturalspace. William Anderson Gittens ISBN 978-976-96220-7-4 Author, Dip., Com., Arts. B.A. Media Arts Specialists’ Cultural Practitioner, Publisher