Of course, a cultural identity of this type [transculturality] is not to be equated with national identity. The distinction between cultural and national identity is of elementary importance. It belongs to the mustiest assumptions that an individual's cultural formation must be determined by his nationality or national status. The insinuation that someone who possesses an Indian or a German passport must also culturally unequivocally be an Indian or a German and that, if this isn't the case, he's some guy without a fatherland, or a traitor to his fatherland, is as foolish as it is dangerous. The detachment of civic from personal or cultural identity is to be insisted upon - all the more so in states, such as ours, in which freedom in cultural formation belongs among one's basic rights.
Wolfgang Welsch, "Transculturality - the Puzzling Form of Cultures Today"
