Diasporic Art as a Means of Community Identity Construction
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More than 200 million people live today out of their countries, and the majority of them are originated from the third world countries while only a minority of them had the chance to be accepted in developed countries, where different mechanisms are used to open the doors only for well educated and elites coming from poor countries. Anyway, no matter where these populations are situated, their first concern after finding the elementary conditions of life is how to find a way to conserve or reproduce and even develop their original culture as a means to have their identities preserved. In recent years the melting pot theory shows more and more its appropriateness for analyzing the immigrated communities, this is in opposition to theories which argue that the reconstruction of communities in the host country is not a problem for their integration, but a path to their prosperity at least in the cultural domain. The art, in all its forms, especially in developed countries is one of the best ways to produce and reproduce the original cultures. In this paper the author, has based his argument on a theoretical framework on the art as a means of community construction identity, giving examples in Iranian and some other diasporic communities. Nevertheless the argument concerns about a risk of deviation and development of a sort of exotic approach to the others’ culture.
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Persian
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Journal of dramatic Arts and Music, Volume:1 Issue: 1, 2010
Pages:
5 to 23
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