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I.
A Man has a natural need to identify himself with a group. Only a part of our
personality can be created by ourselves. The rest is obtained from other people
in a form of culture.
II.
Eradicated person - it means thrown off from the culture typical for his
community - is lost in the world. This situation makes his personality poorer.
Without being backed by the culture - group identity - man can be easily
manipulated by the authority, and thoughtlessly follows fashions.
III.
The freedom of man is expressed in his right to preserve his identity and
unlikeness. So the right to preserve group's cultural identity is a result (in a
certain way) of the right of every individual to preserve his individual
identity.
IV.
The group identity being the necessary binder of the social solidarity is an
autonomous value. The unlimited freedom of changing someone's identity involves
chaos of the group existence, weakens its unity, and facilitates the
assimilation of small communities by the big ones. The choice of the identity
must be not dependent only from an individual, but it must accepted by other
members of its group.
V.
Group identities - cultures - may be created on different basis, but the most
common form of the group identity is the ethnic (national, regional, tribal)
identity. So these identities are not imagined or hypothetical but they are real.
VI.
Cultures which were created during the historical changes of natural communities
are based on tradition. Breaking off with the tradition always leads to the loss
of own cultural identity. This is tantamount to the alienation of individuals
and to disintegration of the community. That's why while not wishing stagnation
or petrifaction of the status quo we demand to reconsider our idolatrous
relation to the progress which is not good by itself. Proven, traditional forms
are better than the experiments made on living organisms. The society must
develop, but changes must have the evolutionary and unconstrained character.
They must not lead to the disruption of the cultural continuity.
VII.
The diversity of the human kind is a fact beyond any discussion. It is
manifested in all areas of human existence. The abundance of being is a crucial
value should be defended. Protecting this wealth we defend at the same time both:
the richness, the diversity of the world around us and the real freedom of the
group (the community can not be free without being conscious of its separateness).
Further more, being rooted in a specific culture we are more sensitive to the
uniqueness of other cultures. All cultures are equally alien and indifferent for
the eradicated person. In such a situation we can not talk about tolerance, but
only about the lack of his own identity.