Becoming an integral part of national culture requires hyphenating national identity terms.
Evidence
For him and his fellow commissioners, he robustly argued, the central point was that if people from ethnic minorities were ever to become not only citizens but an integral part of the national culture, the term “British” would have to be hyphenated in a variety of ways, so as to accommodate their differences and become more inclusive of their experiences. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 157
Categorization
- DEFINE: Introduces the hyphenated-nationality concept as a mechanism for including minorities within national culture.
- XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s scaffolding on imagined communities and how national identity is constructed to include/exclude.
- ADDENDUM: Parallels the rhetoric about accommodating difference seen in the immodesty moral panics and dress-signaling arguments.