ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with an attempt to create inter alia a new attitude to insularity: one that charges a reformed system of education with the fostering of a new identity both individually and collectively. Cultural identity is achieved by access to the elements of culture of a national or ethnic group. The cultural identity of the group is kept up by constant reference to the reservoir of its culture. The culture itself, taken to mean more than the cultivation of the mind, is applied to a system which informs the whole social activity of a nation, people or group. In comparative anthropology, cultural identity is used to designate a distinctive way of life - a lived culture within political, economic or more specific educational and social structures. Political identity is coeval with political organization, while cultural identity may lie athwart political boundaries, although the dominant political organization may help foster or indeed damage it.
