The key issues that reflect cultural distinctiveness and diversity are:
- Culture embraces the traditions, beliefs and values that can be expressed by using different forms of artsitic expression and creativity.
- Culture also connects these elements to develop sources of meaning to inform a particular way of life.
- Everyone has the right to freedom of expression, association and choice. This freedom is the basis of cultural diversity, a pluralism that cherishes and nurtures diversity.
- Cultures grow and develop in response to other cultures and changes in the environment.
These factors highlight the importance of
- protecting, preserving or restoring people's heritage
- promoting cultural diversity, and
- building a more inclusive society
to find a common ground for living together in the same nation.
The above statements summarise UNESCO's declarations, which define culture as "the whole complex of distinctive spritiual, material, intellectual and emotional features that characterise a society or a social group".
The challenge for cultural management lies in connecting diversity to sustainable development.
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