Abstract：Cultural confidence entails not only a stance to guide and lead other cultures with our culture so as to civilize people, but also expectation of positive response from other others. Cultural identity is a prerequisite for the response effect of cultural confidence. With cultural confidence, we are assertive about our culture and aim to integrate with other cultures. Cultural confidence is built in the process from self-assertion to integration with others so as to achieve cultural identity as a result. This logic is mainly based on regional pride of culture, the subjectivity of culture and the fact that humans are similarly wired but widely different in habits and behaviors. The construction of this logic requires not only formal conditions such as commodities, institutions, education and rituals, but also substantive conditions such as belief, value, conservatism and openness, non-coercion and non-induction. The necessity of opening this logic highlights the nationality claims of humanism, the right claims of cosmopolitanism, the subject claim of boundaries, and action appeal for love and faith. The key to the progress from cultural confidence to cultural identity is the coexistence of individuals and the world, otherness and universality. It must follow the natural logic of culture with perpetual development as primary driving force, the logic of rights and the logic of the subject with equality as the core, pursuing the coexistence of individuals and the collective, nations and the humanity, and countries and the world. The progress from cultural confidence to cultural identity, should be based on honesty and faith, and aimed at achieving understanding sympathy and compassionate love. Only with credit and morality can we make the world a better place. Only when we transcend narrow nationalism and extreme patriotism can we coexist in harmony.
2022, Vol. 39 
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