This living heritage, transmitted from generation to generation, gives communities and groups a feeling of identity and continuity, which is considered to be essential for respecting cultural diversity and human creativity.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

"(Chavez) has definitely given an identity and feeling of self-respect to people who felt invisible and ignored, " said Jennifer McCoy, director of the Americas Program at the Carter Center in Atlanta.

CNN: Chavez leaves a revolutionary legacy

According to Mr Gevisser, Mr Mbeki's vision of an African renaissance is an attempt to overcome the damage done by this sense of disconnection and to resurrect his continent's feeling of pride and identity.

ECONOMIST: Thabo Mbeki

He says, with feeling, that modern Scottish identity is open to all: Pakistani Scots are as Scottish as any other.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

When he tapped his volunteers on their chests at the same time as he tapped the air at chest-height below the cameras, they reported feeling that the core of their identity inhabited the camera's position.

ECONOMIST: Consciousness

They realize they no longer have the one, two, or three things that gave them their identity, or kept them feeling productive and part of something.

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