Economic Development and Modernization in Africa Homogenize National Cultures

The nation-building literature of the early 1960s argued that decolonized countries need to overcome pre-colonial ethnic identities and generate national cultures. Africa is the most critical test case of this aspect of modernization theory as it has by far the largest ethnolinguistic fractionalizat...

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Published in:	Journal of cross-cultural psychology Vol. 52; no. 8-9; pp. 801 - 821
Main Authors:	Minkov, Michael, Kaasa, Anneli, Welzel, Christian
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.10.2021 SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects:	Agricultural development Borders Cluster analysis Clustering Colonialism Comparative studies Cultural differences Cultural groups Cultural identity Economic development Egalitarianism Emancipation Ethnic identity Ethnicity Ethnolinguistic groups Ethnolinguistics Ewe Gender role attitudes Homophobia Men Modernization Multivariate Analysis Nation building National identity Political development Racial Identification Religion Respondents Role of Religion Submissiveness Xenophobia Yoruba language Yoruba people Africa modernization national culture Africa ethnolinguistic culture
ISSN:	0022-0221, 1552-5422
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