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basic to the construction of identity:

-   the need to be seen as a person of value

-   the need to be able to work at one’s identity and

heritage in a positive light

the need to be proud to be an Aborigine

These same factors were stressed by all those Aboriginal
people interviewed in the process of defining the problem to be
researched.

Such a view presents one synthesizing idea - identity does
not lie in differences in culture or sub-culture, but in the ability
to point to origin with pride, and to see oneself and be seen
in a positive light. It is only in this context that the Aborigines
see themselves able to counteract the socialization into identity
offered them by the dominant group, namely, socialization into

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negative identity or socialization into identity-diffusion.

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