Carrie Nation

Progress and Conclusion on my Personal Growth The four diversity related topics I’ll be focusing on are: oppression & power, ethnic identity development, ableism and ageism. With the topic of oppression and power, as well as some the exercises we did, sort of made me realized how rough my bringing up and how easy some of the white students had it, regardless of their situation. It also made apparent who had more privilege than others and who was a bit more wary of the power they held with their…

understanding due to the common culture and characteristics among themselves, hence be called as a nation. “It is an ideological movement for the attainment and maintenance of autonomy, unity, and identity on behalf of a population deemed by some of its members to constitute an actual or potential ‘nation’” (Tarling 2004, p. 15). The core of nationalism is nation hence it projects an individual’s attachment to the nation. Originally, major causes such as religion along with cultural and…

The multiplicity of ethnic cultures constructs our racial attitudes and helps us realize our social identity. In this context, social identity is defined as our various group memberships, where each group membership is emphasized by personal importance (Hoplamazian & Knobloch-Westerwick, 2014). Our personal identities can help us develop how we want to be perceived as individuals by our ethnic culture. In this context, a personal identity refers to how we use our unique individual…

communal unity in identity despite being from different social and regional backgrounds, highlighting different roles/identities being played out during the course of the movie and how these identities synthesize by the end of it. For Benedict Anderson, nation “is an imagined political community--and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign" (Anderson 1983). Aligning with the inference that nationhood is a social construct, we see the three central characters, each trying to blend into…

current civilization. Women began to break the gender barrier as the got the right to vote and joined the workplace, leading to early feminism and the way to gender equality. Lastly, there was Canada’s road to autonomy, with Canada becoming a separate nation and gaining its independence. In the ’20s, Canada started a journey that helped it develop into country it is today. One of the most important and profound inventions in history began with the mass production of the automobile. It paved the…

United States is the land of the free and home of the brave, it is a place that welcomes everyone. Many different ethnicities living in the same nation as a whole makes up a melting pot nation. We coexist with each other and have overcame many obstacles, together, throughout many years. In recent years, issues have emerged amongst the minorities of our nation wanting equal rights and freedoms. The main focus is on black rights and police brutality against them. These issues have been…

Benedict Anderson famously developed a concept known as the “imagined community” to describe modern nations. Anderson argues that nations are imagined because members within the nation do not and cannot know all other members of the nation, therefore individuals must rely on common symbols and traditions to determine who is a part of the nation. Although Anderson tied the creation of modern nations to the “vernacularization” of Latinate languages and subsequent dissemination via the printing…

This source believes that all countries should have a right to have their own policies, also that all countries should, “pursue its own goals”, and avoid interfering with another countries policies. Throughout the countries of the world they’re many different ideas and policies on religion, race, culture, etc., that all conflict with each other in different ways. Some believe that when these countries conflict with one another there should be some kind of interference between them to fix the…

Scottish nationalism in its entire existence has come as quite the surprise to various English people and even some Scots. There is a general satisfaction with the Scottish-British Identity. Nevertheless, this dual-identity has become weaker. There are the typical explanations for this decline of communal feeling. For example, 70 years have passed since united British residence against the opposing threat of NAZI Germany. Another possible factor would be the end of Britain as the world largest…

and flourishing of one’s own nation and the second kind is partiality…