Do You Live In A Tepee Summary

In the articles “Too Asian” written by Findley and Koehler, “Evil White Nationalists” written by Hage, and “Do You Live in a Tepee?” written by Clark et al. The first two articles state that the issue lies within the fact that there is an “imaginary nation” and that some people don’t fit in it. For example, in “Too Asian” the authors are saying how the Asian students are different from the Caucasian ones, so in a sense, they don’t fit in. In the article “Evil White Nationalists” the author states that nationalism functions to protect the “imaginary nation”. When we put these two articles together we get a theory and example relationship. For example, in the article by Hage, we have the author giving us the theory about how nationalism functions …show more content…
Hage gives an example in the article about a Muslim woman getting her head scarf getting ripped off of her head. He says that racist beliefs don’t always mean racist practices, meaning just because someone thinks that one race is superior to another, this doesn’t necessarily mean the person will act on those beliefs. Further down in the article, Hage mentions something interesting about nationalists, he says that the view of a nationalist is that they feel like they need to protect their own country and beliefs. So going back to the example of the Muslim woman who got her head scarf ripped off, this was a way to show that the scarf was an inferior culture item or that Muslims themselves are inferior. He goes on to say that nationalists feel threatened because there are “too many of them here” (37). He says that what motivates nationalists is that they are motivated to preserve the culture and having “too many Muslims” or “too many Asians” threatens the existing “white culture” and that makes them want to protect their own culture because they don’t want to conform to the new cultures coming