Expellee memory culture aimed to transmit identity against assimilation
Evidence
This was to serve as a way to retain pride in one’s Silesian identity and inculcate it into future generations, lest it dissipate in the foreign West German environment. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 807
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Clinging to lost-homeland identity actively blocked expellee assimilation — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 381; Living memory of expulsion decays and must be replaced by institutional commemoration — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 957; Destructive plasticity forms identity through deconstitution, not preservation — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 202 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Clinging to lost-homeland identity actively blocked expellee assimilation
#corroborates(0.90) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 381 - Living memory of expulsion decays and must be replaced by institutional commemoration
#complicates(0.78) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 957 - Destructive plasticity forms identity through deconstitution, not preservation
#contradicts(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 202 - Embracing inauthenticity can be a productive creative response to assimilation pressure
#qualifies(0.75)