ethnic pride
Ancestral identity celebration
Ethnic pride is positive regard for one's ethnic heritage—the traditions, history, and cultural identity shared by a group.
The term appears in discussions of identity formation and community solidarity: The festival celebrates ethnic pride through traditional music and food.
It can also appear in debates about nationalism, where critics see ethnic pride shading into chauvinism or exclusion.
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- mother tongueLanguage acquired from birth
- kinshipState of being related
- old countryImmigrant's ancestral homeland
- oral historyRecorded interviews about the past
ancestry · migration stories · storytelling · folk songs · festivals · activism · mutual aid · cultural preservation · tribal traditions · cuisine · family recipes · diaspora · indigenous rights · collective identity · cultural renaissance · heritage sites · traditional dress · traditional crafts
- Italian AmericansItalian Americans, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Frank Sinatra, Martin Scorsese
- immigrant identityimmigrant experience, immigrant identity, dual identity, hybrid identity, hyphenated identity
- Irish AmericanaIrish diaspora, Irish heritage, Irish identity, Irish traditions, Irish Catholic
- Identity Politicsethnonationalism, tribalism, tribal identity, cultural nationalism
- Yiddish LiteratureYiddish theater, Sholem Aleichem, folktales, literary journals
- heritagecultural traditions, museum, national heritage, archive, monument
ethnic pridecultural assimilation
Adopting another group's norms
assimilation · acculturation · passing · whitewashing · deracination
ethnic pridecosmopolitanism
Belief in shared humanity
color-blindness · universalism · race-blindness · individualism