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noun

  • The sense of belonging to a specific group or society, based on shared traditions, ancestry, language, beliefs, and values.

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The artist’s eponymous 2025 sculpture, crowned with an array of Bantu knots, ties the entire show together, joining materiality, traditional cultural identity, and the outward-looking nature of the exhibition in a single work.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

“If I’m very self-assured about my cultural identity and heritage, I’m much less likely to succumb to suicidal empathy,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

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  • shared heritage
  • group affiliation
  • communal self-concept
  • sense of belonging

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  • statelessness
  • cultural ambiguity
  • anomie

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