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2。2 The Constitution of the National Cultural Identity

    In terms of the cultural identity, Segers (1999) advocates that within the constructional framework, the national cultural identity of the particular nations or the certain ethnic groups of the nation depends on three factors: (1) the formal features that connect with the certain historical age of nations or ethnic groups; (2) the psychological structure of people of the certain social groups; (3) the way that outsiders select, explain and evaluate the features of the ethnic groups。 In other words, it’s the exterior images of the cultural identity of the Heterogeneous nations or ethnic groups。 The relationship among those three factors is dynamic。 As said in the novel, “because history is not easy to overcome。 Neither the religion。 In the end, Amir was a Pashtun and Hassan was a Hazara, Amir was a Sunni and Hassan was a Shi’a”(Hosseini, 2007, p。 27)。 Shivani (2007) also thinks that cultural identity has the features of Structuralism because the certain culture is regard as a series of correlative features, which are independent of the people who established the culture。