Quang Minh Pham
Contemporary Issue
10/8/2015
Over past 200 years, the proliferation of nation-state in the world replaced almost kingdoms, empires and city states, along with the changing of world policy and aspects of modernization. The emergence of nation-state is understandable when the power is shifted to nationalists to diffuse nation-state from an empire. The success of American Revolution in eighteenth century was the very first sign of the rising of modern sovereign nation-state – A sovereign state has their own constitution, ruled under fair law of equal residents.
Furthermore, building a strong national identity is the core mission for every new sovereign state, especially in culture. People in the same culture tend to have similar …show more content…
The United States does not have a homogeneous culture, it is the fusion of many culture, race around the world such as Asia, Europe, Oceania… gathering in one place. The variety in culture in the US seem to make a lot of conflict between people come from different race, but actually, the diversity in culture of all immigrants come to the US somehow make the whole nation become stronger and step forward. No matter who they come from, once they are American, they are supposed to adopt the American way. That belief of American likely to forgive the sin of people in the past, accept them joining in the society and together heading to the build the better life. Therefore, the national identity in the US is so strong and proud, compared to other countries. However, in the past, The US also had to suffer the tragedy civil war caused by the conflict between the people who have different thought. The very first ancestor of the American discover the America and migrate there with facilities, asset, and slave. There was a commonsense in American’s thought that the black people is considered slave, they have very low status in society. Many people kept that thinking until now. However, the American state is a sovereign state that for free man, and treating slave as animal go against the constitution of a freedom nation. This contradiction needed to be solve or the national identity will be collapsed. The civil war between the North – who fight for equality of slave and the South- who want to keep slavery occurred and the winner was the North. Since then, the black people have a better life and they contributed a lot to the strength of this
Contemporary Issue
10/8/2015
Over past 200 years, the proliferation of nation-state in the world replaced almost kingdoms, empires and city states, along with the changing of world policy and aspects of modernization. The emergence of nation-state is understandable when the power is shifted to nationalists to diffuse nation-state from an empire. The success of American Revolution in eighteenth century was the very first sign of the rising of modern sovereign nation-state – A sovereign state has their own constitution, ruled under fair law of equal residents.
Furthermore, building a strong national identity is the core mission for every new sovereign state, especially in culture. People in the same culture tend to have similar …show more content…
The United States does not have a homogeneous culture, it is the fusion of many culture, race around the world such as Asia, Europe, Oceania… gathering in one place. The variety in culture in the US seem to make a lot of conflict between people come from different race, but actually, the diversity in culture of all immigrants come to the US somehow make the whole nation become stronger and step forward. No matter who they come from, once they are American, they are supposed to adopt the American way. That belief of American likely to forgive the sin of people in the past, accept them joining in the society and together heading to the build the better life. Therefore, the national identity in the US is so strong and proud, compared to other countries. However, in the past, The US also had to suffer the tragedy civil war caused by the conflict between the people who have different thought. The very first ancestor of the American discover the America and migrate there with facilities, asset, and slave. There was a commonsense in American’s thought that the black people is considered slave, they have very low status in society. Many people kept that thinking until now. However, the American state is a sovereign state that for free man, and treating slave as animal go against the constitution of a freedom nation. This contradiction needed to be solve or the national identity will be collapsed. The civil war between the North – who fight for equality of slave and the South- who want to keep slavery occurred and the winner was the North. Since then, the black people have a better life and they contributed a lot to the strength of this