The cultural model – premise of human identity formation

Abstract

The study represents an attempt to update and reconfirm some important concepts, such as: human personality, national character, national identity, cultural identity/personality, cultural model. Different points of view on the respective concepts are analyzed, with reference to the works of some notorious anthropologists and philosophers: D. Reisman, Margaret Mead, Max Weber, R. Linton, C. Noica, L. Blaga, A Mihu, V. Pâslaru et al. The author of the article claims that although the greatest importance in the formation of personality has the environment, however the individual’s personality in formation is shaped by culture, as in a society with a sufficiently stable culture, the individual integrates more and more as he gets older, reaffirms his values, attitudes, adhering to the behavior that his culture prescribes. The person who begins his life in one culture and, later, continues it in another, is forced to adhere to patterns of behavior that do not agree with his own values, attitudes. The article refers to the Bessarabian society, which during the Russian and Soviet empires were forced to impose foreign cultural models, which had a devastating impact on the natives. Made in a national and universal context, the transformation of the individual from a biological being into a cultural, intellectual-spiritual one is possible through an education based on national values, produced by the nation to which the educable belong.