Sustainability of Existing Cultures, Entertainment and Identity; for National Unity in A Small World

Edokpa Fadal Mary ,Omosun Marvins Kennedy ,Osimen Goddy Uwa

doi:10.7176/rhss/9-18-09

Abstract

The recognition of entertainment could be traced down to the peoples’ way of life. It constitutes their cultural arts in satisfying human values which are reflection of the ethnical and cultural identity. This paper explains the significance of sustaining entertainment for the endowed cultures and identity in Africa for national unity. The essence of this is that ethnicity is identity which has other elements that make up cultural values. This paper concisely describes and explains the importance of enhancing popular ethics and entertainment of music and cultural arts. It is aimed at showing how entertainment can build the nation’s unity by way of sustaining a popular sense of identity and recognition in terms of interest and values. It becomes imperative for any nation to take cognizance of its entertainment with a view to managing it for national unity and identification of cultures. It means that the contributions of the aesthetics of entertainment differ from nation to nation when trans-valued or compared with others. Thus, when popular entertainment meets the taste of its people’s origin and beyond, it contributes to a nation’s unity in diversity because the people of its origin are part of the nation whose culture encapsulate entertainment identity. It is our finding that recognition of popular entertainment and ethnic identity leads to peace and unity. This is however geared towards achieving a universal unity for peace and development through objective approach against subjective approach which has always been the trend. This paper utilizesecondary source of data. Keywords: entertainment, culture and identity. DOI : 10.7176/RHSS/9-18-09 Publication date :September 30 th 2019

Highlights

Sustaining and appreciating our cultural entity is knowledge of our cultural values and orientation
The cultural policy that exists in most nations has helped to establish and sustain the existence in relation to cultural identities and entertainment.Oamen (2015) states that, by way of endorsing the identity of the people,their culture in theory and practice must not be ignored or despised for any political reason, recalling the experience of destructive violence and its consequences because of ignorance and feeling of neglect by some groups concerning certain values and interest, which is a reason to appreciate the diversified cultural background
The adverse effect of modernization process without culture and identity and recognition lacks in many ways, mutual respect for each other cultures or traditions and making it at all expense is the order of the day

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Sustaining and appreciating our cultural entity is knowledge of our cultural values and orientation. Towards sustaining the existing culture of our nation for peace and unity, certain policies are involved. The cultural policy that exists in most nations has helped to establish and sustain the existence in relation to cultural identities and entertainment.Oamen (2015) states that, by way of endorsing the identity of the people,their culture in theory and practice must not be ignored or despised for any political reason, recalling the experience of destructive violence and its consequences because of ignorance and feeling of neglect by some groups concerning certain values and interest, which is a reason to appreciate the diversified cultural background.

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