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<p>It is amazing how polarizing and, at the same time, ahistorical narratives can be heard about the problems discussed, especially in Anglophone countries in recent times, and on social media: identity policy, cultural policy, racism, patriotism, white privilege, patriarchy, sexism, gender, and others. Stoic pragmatism is not in agreement with the most recent populism and neo-tribalistic class of narratives, which highlight division and the polarization of groups of people against other groups of people as the very axis of argumentation. Even more importantly, stoic pragmatists, especially those who happen to have a Central and Eastern European sensibility, may insist on the specificity of the situation of the region as a whole, and the current war in Ukraine only makes this specificity much more articulated. What I mean is that it is difficult to confront active identity and diversity issues when historical contexts and the geographical space have their own narratives about identity, including national identity, in the name of which, for example, Ukrainians fight against Russians these days, and Poles and Balts fought not that long ago.</p>
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It is amazing how polarizing and, at the same time, ahistorical narratives can be heard about the problems discussed, especially in Anglophone countries in recent times, and on social media: identity policy, cultural policy, racism, patriotism, white privilege, patriarchy, sexism, gender, and others. Stoic pragmatism is not in agreement with the most recent populism and neo-tribalistic class of narratives, which highlight division and the polarization of groups of people against other groups of people as the very axis of argumentation. Even more importantly, stoic pragmatists, especially those who happen to have a Central and Eastern European sensibility, may insist on the specificity of the situation of the region as a whole, and the current war in Ukraine only makes this specificity much more articulated. What I mean is that it is difficult to confront active identity and diversity issues when historical contexts and the geographical space have their own narratives about identity, including national identity, in the name of which, for example, Ukrainians fight against Russians these days, and Poles and Balts fought not that long ago.

Cultural diversity and clashing narratives about national culture: A Central European stoic pragmatist perspective

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It is amazing how polarizing and, at the same time, ahistorical narratives can be heard about the problems discussed, especially in Anglophone countries in...

Cultural diversity and clashing narratives about national culture: A Central European stoic pragmatist perspective

Published Online: Dec 03, 2022

Page range: 212 - 220

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ebce-2022-0013

Keywords
stoic pragmatism, John Lachs, Culture, Cultural diversity, Central Europe, Eastern Europe

© 2022 Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Cultural diversity and clashing narratives about national culture: A Central European stoic pragmatist perspective

Published Online: Dec 03, 2022

Page range: 212 - 220

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ebce-2022-0013

Keywordsstoic pragmatism, John Lachs, Culture, Cultural diversity, Central Europe, Eastern Europe

© 2022 Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
stoic pragmatism, John Lachs, Culture, Cultural diversity, Central Europe, Eastern Europe