Cultural identity, freedom of choice in

Type of entry: Right

Everyone is free to choose whether or not to identify with a cultural community or with more than one cultural community simultaneously, regardless of borders, and to modify that choice. UNESCO Declaration of Cultural Rights, Art. 4

Broader Terms:

• Cultural life, participation in and benefits of scientific progress
• Science and culture, conservation of
• Cultural identity

Narrower Terms:

• Cultural communities, choice in identifying with
• Cultural communities, choice in identifying with multiple
• Cultural designations, involuntary or de facto
• Cultural identity, change of
• Cultural property, arbitrary deprivation of
• Cultural property, arbitrary removal of
• Culture (dominant), involuntary assimilation into