The youth are the main targets for shaping cultural values. Cultural identity is closely related to the development of a nation and plays a positive role in its stability. Therefore, in the process of shaping the value of youth, revealing the interaction mechanism between affection and cultural identity has strong theoretical and practical significance for promoting the education of the socialist core value system and enhancing national cohesion. This study divides cultural identity into two dimensions: cultural identity consciousness and cultural affection consciousness. Affection is inseparable from human mode of thinking and action, and there are circular cumulative causal effects between affection and cultural identity. Based on the students’ interview and observation, this study gathers the information and employs Boston four-quadrant matrix to analyse the status quo of students’ cultural identity consciousness and cultural affection consciousness, and puts forward countermeasures and suggestions for the improvement of cultural cognitive identity and cultural emotional identity.

Qiu Liu. Affection and Culture Identification: Connotation and Logics. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2024) Vol. 7, Issue 7: 248-252. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2024.070738.

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