Culture Memory Studies This Week's Essay

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According to Connerton (2008), people remember things based upon the management of their current identity and ongoing processes. Forgetting then is part of the process by which new events in ones life lead to new memories that get discarded because they no longer have a relevance to ones present identity. It is thought that old memories do nothing but clutter up ones mind and thus be discarded in order to make room for new and fresh things that are going on in ones life. This means that a person is constantly replacing old memories with new ones, as their association and identity with their current culture is ever evolving.
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