Andrew O Hagen Analysis

The quote ”A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on the myths of a struggling commonality”express the fact that a nation is built on the coming together of common citizens as well as establishing a feeling of struggling. This feeling creates an environment where our society feels it must work hard to keep the nation together. Andrew O’Hagen has taken the reality of different nations in our world and has put them into one sentence. Andrew O'Hagen's view is one of that may be controversial due to the fact that it completely embraces the ideological factor of nationalism where a nation is defined under specific rules and not defined by the diversity of the citizens. A nation under his perspective may be considered more of an ethnic nation which is a nation where there is one common culture, race and religion compared to a civic nation where there a combination of cultures, races and religions. As part of the Canadian society, we should not create a barrier between those who make up our …show more content…
Nine black children risked their lives for the sake of their national equality.That provided a leap forward in history for the black community and Andrew just wants great triumphs like that to be passed off as myths of a struggling nation. The creation of a struggling nation only makes it strong so we must allow ourselves to stand up a be the voice of those myths and let them be