Exploration of Cultural Identity Path Based on Historical Materialism

Abstract

Cultural identity has special significance both for the belonging of the individual and the stability of the group. In the research paradigm of historical materialism, cultural identity is not an elusive "mystery", without any "mysterious and speculative colors." The main body of cultural identity is "real people", the basis of reality is practice, the way of realization is social interaction, and the direct cause of formation, development and evolution is interest pursuit. Cultural identity is the subject's rational confirmation, emotional conversion, and practical maintenance of the results of spiritual civilization that reflect their own production and living practices and actual needs. The culture mentioned in this article refers to the culture of ideology, which is the result of spiritual civilization formed on the basis of human production practice and life practice, and has a counter-action to it. The identification studied in this article refers to the survival mode rooted in people's "social existence" and promotes the realistic needs of the subject. It is a subject concept and identity consciousness formed by the subject reflecting its own objective world. Cultural identity is the result of a combination of subject and object factors. Cultural identity originates from a common economic foundation, a common social identity, and a common system of ideas. The main paths formed are cultural heritage, cultural exchanges, and political forces. Rational confirmation, emotional conversion, and practical maintenance constitute the generation mechanism of cultural identity.