Building a connection to African heritage helps black people in the diaspora overcome identity loss and understand their worth.

“I think it's very important that we forge that connection and that we understand where we came from because only if you understand where we came from do we know where we're going.”

She views culture as a vital blueprint for her platform, noting that people should embrace and represent their heritage in their personal and professional lives.

“They love seeing things like culture as the underlining like um blueprint of my platform”

Sharing one's cultural heritage through art and creative expression is important for maintaining a connection to who one is.

“i feel like we're all going through that together and i'm seeing so many south asians sort of really start sharing you know who they are where they come from through art through messages and i think it's just really important that we do that so we remember who we are”

Food serves as an essential, non-linear medium for individuals to explore, define, and express their personal identity and cultural history.

“But if you want to know who I am, taste the food.”

She believes it is not necessary to choose one side of a cultural identity to be accepted, but instead, one can exist as the intersection of multiple cultures.

“it's kind of what inspired um the the album esquina's because I am not this side or that side of the streets that raised me I am the corner of two flags two cultures two languages and I know I'm not the only one”

Khalyla Kuhn explains that she struggled with her identity, adopting different accents and cultural personae before eventually accepting her natural self.

“I don't know how I spent all that time trying I I was so I didn't just didn't feel like I knew where I belonged or how I was supposed to speak”

He views his own multifaceted background as evidence that multiple identities can coexist rather than being mutually exclusive.

“I'm not one or the other because I often get that where it's like well Jay you used to be a monk and now you have companies and you're married and you're this and that and I'm like yeah but the two things can co-exist for me as an identity”

Modi views Indian culture as a unified civilization defined by deep cultural bonds and philosophical traditions rather than just an administrative system.

“India is a cultural identity. It is a civilization that dates back thousands of years.”

History acts as a foundational element that provides a society with identity, belonging, and pride, and undermining this severs the vital connection between people and their place.

“And I think it's fundamentally important because history is one of the key elements that grounds a society and a people to place. It fosters that sense of identity and of belonging and of pride. And if you undermine that, then essentially you sever that connection between people and place.”

A nation must maintain cultural and historical cohesion to preserve its identity and ensure security.

“There's no cohesion around a history if you have a certain set of people that aren't proud of their history and then another set of people who come in and are and are there to basically crap all over the history. Hungary doesn't have that fraying within its um within its sort of logos.”