This distinctiveness can lead some to claim that it would do better if it severed ties with England and became its own city-state.
The distinctiveness of the Donegal tradition led to some conflict between Donegal players and representatives of the mainstream tradition when Irish traditional music was organised in the 1960s.
Indeed, distinctiveness can be an advantage and lead to special opportunities.
"The thrill of documenting something that might elicit attention from one's peers and lead to a feeling of 'optimal distinctiveness' may also underlie motivations for posting sensational or unethical behaviors," Dara Greenwood, a psychology professor at Vassar College, told HuffPost.
He will also say that Eastleigh proved that being the smaller party in a coalition does not inevitably lead to the Lib Dems losing their distinctiveness.
Nothing very distinctive and nothing on Liberal Democrat distinctiveness.
At the same time, a complete failure to enforce will lead to a weakening of an owner's marks, loss of distinctiveness over time and, as we saw in this case, potential forfeiture of certain available remedies.
Of course, a complete failure to enforce will lead to a weakening of an owner's marks, loss of distinctiveness over time and potential forfeiture of certain available remedies.
But that may be the best that can be said for it.As good a starting place as any to understand its distinctiveness is with the Liberal Democrats, partners with Labour both in the project that led to devolution and, from the outset, in the new executive that governs Scotland.
We've written previously for the Guardian Higher Education Network about a project led by Plymouth University, in partnership with colleagues at Teesside, to examine how higher education institutions develop distinctiveness strategies in the post-Browne era.
