ABSTRACT
Fonte's jeremiad applied the label transnational to a process of cultural transformation long lamented by right-wing thinkers convinced that identifications based on race, gender, and ethnicity are undermining identity formation based on nationalistic values. This chapter contends that ethnic identification can stem the tide of capitalist globalization and lead, if not to socialism or another revolutionary goal, then at least to diversification and complexity than proportionalism or multicultural relativism. Ethnic differences result in variant approaches, some of which may adaptive to possible futures while others safeguard the past. There is an alternative approach to question of identity; one that is additive than divisive and casts identity politics in a more positive and productive light. The discussions of identity have foreclosed by these three terms ever since: inclusion, recognition, and exclusion. The Canadian philosopher and great Hegel specialist, Charles Taylor, gave its contemporary formulation in his famous essay on "Multiculturalism and the Politics of Recognition".
