The College of Pharmacy at the University of Basrah hosted the cultural symposium (Cultural identity and the danger of its demise), which was organized by the Manar Al-Ummah Cultural Association.  The symposium included an interactive lecture given by Professor Jassam Muhammad Al-Saeedi  In it, he explained the importance of the cultural identity of a people, which is the sum of the basic common features among its members that distinguish them from other peoples, as well as the usefulness of cultural identity and how it creates a love of belonging to the country and thus affects its stability and development, as cultural identity protects the morals and values ​​of society from degeneration  Al-Saidi added: The risks of changing or losing cultural identity lead to a change in individual behavior and thus the behavior of society and the difficulty of guidance and behavioral or moral advice for the generation that adopted the change of identity by the generation that owned it before the change, and the new cultural identity can be fully or almost completely entrenched in  The people, or most of them, to remove the dependence of these people on their national state and affect their affiliation and loyalty to facilitate the intellectual invasion and even the ease of adopting any new thought, right or wrong.  and other persons dealing with it The symposium also discussed an important historical fact, which is the massacre (Sefu or the genocide of the Assyrians), which has been absent in the history of Iraq since 1915, the incident in which nine Iraqi provinces disappeared without a historical mention of it.