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The critics of multiculturalism
argue that identities are
constituted by power relations.
They are often defined in
relation to outsiders - the
Others. Western
representations of race have
created ethnic identities
through novels, theatre,
painting, films, television
documentaries, music and
photography.
Ethnic identity is thus largely a "social imaginary" which divides
various cultural groups into "imagined communities" by bonding
them together in literary and visual narrations located in territory,
history and memory.
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