Culture and Intercultural Identity

Intersectionality: “the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.” -Oxford Dictionaries

• Intersectionality is the acknowledgement that within groups of people with a common identity, whether it be gender, sexuality, religion, race, or one of the many other defining aspects of identity, there exist intragroup differences.
• In other words, each individual experiences social structure slightly differently because the intersection of their identities reflects an intersection of overlapping oppressions.
• Therefore, sweeping generalizations about the struggle or power of a particular social group fail to recognize that individuals in the group also belong to other social groups and may experience other forms of marginalization.
• Unfortunately, institutions and social movements based on a commonly shared identity tend to disregard the presence of other marginalized identities within the group.

               http://haenfler.sites.grinnell.edu/subcultural-theory-and-theorists/intersectionality/

Intercultural identity theory explains that extensive and prolonged experiences of communication across cultural boundaries render a gradual psychological evolution from a largely monocultural identity to an increasingly “intercultural” way of relating to oneself and to others. 

Othering is an interdisciplinary notion that refers, among other things, to differentiating discourses that lead to moral and political judgments of superiority and inferiority between in‐groups and out‐groups (“us” and “them”), and within groups.

Dervin, F. (2015). Discourses of Othering. In The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction (eds K. Tracy, T. Sandel and C. Ilie).

Culture: the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.