Diaspora cultural identification persists across multiple generations

Evidence

Barbadians, she suggests, have kept alive in exile a strong sense of what “home” is like and tried to maintain a Barbadian “cultural identity.” This picture is confirmed by research among Caribbean migrants in general in the UK that suggests that, among the so-called ethnic minorities in Britain, what we might call “associational identification” with the cultures of origin remains strong, even into the second and third generation, though the places of origin are no longer the only source of identification. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 818

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘associational identification’ as a term of art for durable attachment to origin cultures in diaspora.
• XREF: connects to: Jewish social alienation differed from class alienation in being inescapable across generations — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 17; Rival broadcast titans came from different class trajectories within one immigrant community — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 347