Review of Francis Fukuyama's "Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment" | History News Network - 0 views
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Fukuyama sees citizen identification with their own nation state as an important part of liberal democracy. In contrast to most progressive leaders, he does not view multiculturalism and the celebration of different ethnicities and sexual orientation as a step forward to more personal freedom. Instead, he sees these new demands for individual identity as destabilizing to modern nation states.
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Fukuyama states that “demand for recognition of one’s identity is a master concept that unifies much of what is going on in world politics today.”
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This demand for recognition of individual identity, whether based on race, religion or gender, has been accelerated by the explosion in international trade and travel and the rise of the Internet and social media. The latter communication tools have “facilitated the emergence of self-contained communities, walled off not by physical barriers but by belief in shared identity.”
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