Chicano nationalism

On one hand, we have Political Realism was the predominant idea in Europe during the warring eras. It is based on Thomas Hobbes’s view of the world and that the world is in a constant state of anarchy. Each individual is responsible for his/ her being and only yourself can protect your rights because others would trample it down if you don’t. At the same time, you also need not to obey nor respect the rights of others. When applied to a much broader idea of international relations, each nation…

The idea of national self-determination is “the right of the people of a particular place to choose the form of government they will have” (Merriam-Webster). It means that a group of people; maybe a specific race, religion, or sex, fight for what they believe in and that they want to be allowed to choose how they are governed and what that governing entails. This idea is shown in several parts of history, such as; during the American Revolution when those who left Europe wanted to choose how…

Is self-determination a good idea? Self-determination was the reaction of Woodrow Wilson towards the global trend of nationalism in the early twentieth century and the centre of his liberal world view as well as the most fundamental source of foreign policies of the United States in the twentieth century. Self-determination could trace its origins to liberal nationalism before First World War and can be explained in many different ways. This essay mainly focuses on the principle and concept of…

I began the school year with fairly simplistic views. Humans were neither good nor evil, they simply wanted happiness. I thought that religion was useless and altogether more boring than the apparent enthusiasm some people seem to have. Nationalism was ridiculous. However throughout the school year, I found those beliefs to change and gain refinement. I was fairly neutral over human nature’s inherent goodness or evil before this school year. This course has made me lose much of my faith within…

“The German Question”: Fragile Decisions After the Two World Wars Both World War I and World War II presented the victors with the same dilemma: how to keep the German power in balance with other nations around the world. However, the foreign decisions after both wars severely hampered the ability to answer “The German Question”. Because the Treaty of Versailles answered “The German Question” by demoting Germany’s economic status, the resolution led to another war. World War II concluded with…

they had a certain set of values that they believed that they should lead by example. But they did not know how to lead by example without upsetting a major ethnic group. If Germany was not punished harshly, the Americans with a strong sense of nationalism would be mad; however if Germany was punished harshly, the German-Americans would be upset. So the United States had to find that balance to attempt to please their wide variety of people. The League of Nations and Treaty of Versailles was a…

Julio Hernández Cordón’s films Marimbas Del Infierno and Polvo reflect the neoliberal period in Guatemala by illustrating how the profound digressions from the period of nationalism affected everyday life. During the nationalist era of the early to mid 20th, Guatemala gained a strong sense of national identity All things traditional and national became popular. The onset of the neoliberal period, however, would drastically change many of these consistencies. The effects of these changes are…

In August of this year, a coalition of over 50 black-led organizations joined together to create a platform and an agenda, that summarized the tactics and collective needs to end the war on black people. Not only do the platform of The Movement for Black Lives (MFBL) and Black Lives Matter (BLM) promote intersectionality and inclusion, it also addresses the issues of categorized citizenship in regards to hegemonic power, without adopting dominant structures in their appeals. Intersectional…

of minorities in the United States. Within the African American community, a trend arose where youths rejected their cultural upbringing in favor of a perceived pure African way of life in order to further African American liberation – Cultural Nationalism. While the movement had many supporters, critics within the general Civil Rights campaign were not afraid to challenge the trend. One of these critics, Alice Walker, used the short story Everyday Use to demonstrate why the Cultural Nationalist…

populations. These motivations include the convenience of using the persecuted group as scapegoats and advancing the idea and acceptance of the “stab-in-the-back” myth, establishing racialized narrative of superiority among groups, the radicalization of nationalism in government caused by any number of issues such as perceived economic disparity to power imbalances, and lastly the diffusion of responsibility. Scapegoats & The Stab-in-the-Back Myth After the embarrassing loss of World War I and…