Holiday celebrations help shape the cultural identity of a country.

节日庆典有助于塑造一个国家的文化认同。

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The Han identity has been the cement which has held this country together.

汉民族文化认同一直把这个国家粘合在一起。

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Singing has always been a crucial means of maintaining a sense of national identity in a country which for hundreds of years was controlled variously by Germans, Swedes and Russians.

拉脱维亚几百年来一直受到各种外来势力如德国，瑞典和俄罗斯的统治，对于这样一个国家，歌声总是一种维系民族认同感的重要手段。

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Even if they do have a proof of identity, none are recognized across the country.

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You have all those things here." The three million visitors who fill the streets of Williamsburg every year are immersed not only in early American life but in the struggle of a small, new country to find its own identity.

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Belarus, a small country of questionable identity, has fallen under the thrall of a demagogue, Alexander Lukashenka.

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The Director-General called on all parties to protect Egyptian cultural heritage, symbol of the country's identity, and to respect freedom of expression, pillar of democracy.

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Then you've got people tying illegal immigrants to terrorist threats, to healthcare threats, avian flu and all the like, threats to racial balance of the country, national identity.

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