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Construction and Representation of Cultural Identity

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Construction and Representation of Cultural Identity at University of Barcelona

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: engineering and engineering trades
Language: Bilingual
University website: www.ub.edu/

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Construction
Construction is the process of constructing a building or infrastructure. Construction differs from manufacturing in that manufacturing typically involves mass production of similar items without a designated purchaser, while construction typically takes place on location for a known client. Construction as an industry comprises six to nine percent of the gross domestic product of developed countries. Construction starts with planning, design, and financing; it continues until the project is built and ready for use.
Identity
The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive.
Marshall McLuhan, as quoted in The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 201.
Identity
My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.
Barack Obama, in Navigating Multiple Identities: Race, Gender, Culture, Nationality, and Roles, p. 53.
Identity
Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he puts nostalgia in its place.
As quoted in "McLuhan's last words" by Stewart Brand, New Scientist (29 January 1981).
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