Dostoevsky cast his lot with the Slavophils who were skeptical of Western ideas and thought Russia needed to maintain its cultural distinctiveness, That distinctiveness included spirituality and mysticism, as well as disdain for measuring and categorizing humans by scientific theories that fail to take account of each individual's uniqueness.
Only then will the resources and leadership needed to establish and communicate distinctiveness be forthcoming.
Uniformity is first needed, in order then to identify distinctiveness.
The BBC, which said that its online operation needed a "new, harder focus on quality and distinctiveness", will pull back from "whole categories of online activity such as web search, communications and non-content related social networking".
In addition, further investigations are needed to address the genetic basis and adaptive relevance of their phenotypic distinctiveness, as long with a possible variation due to population substructuring.
However, in an increasingly marketised environment for higher education, universities need absolute clarity and distinctiveness in their offer.
She did criticize the album for its simplicity, concluding, "Three Days Grace are definitely one of the most accessible alt-metal bands of the 2000s; they just need to add some more distinctiveness to their sound".
The continuing need for quality and distinctiveness outside the BBC needs to be articulated clearly, loudly and often.
Social identity attributes the cause of ingroup favoritism to a psychological need for positive distinctiveness and describes the situations where ingroup favoritism is likely to occur (as a function of perceived group status, legitimacy, stability, and permeability).
I have always believed that the arts can have a local distinctiveness, and if we are to preserve the diversity that brings richness to the practice of the arts, we need to protect and nurture locally-distinctive artistic expression.
