Chickasaw Nation

Gregory Bateson said, “Without context, words and actions have no meaning at all” (Mind and Nature 15). That quote may seem melodramatic, but surely you acknowledge the axiomatic certainty of the foundational importance of context. The proper context is imperative to understanding the content, and context is fundamental to understanding Beowulf. Warren Christopher said, “It's very important to always put statements in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country…

slavery as that which “undermined both the meaning of consent in the republic, and the very unity post-Revolutionary nationalism sought to enact.” The presence of slavery, as viewed by Furstenberg, is seen as something that is detrimental to the nation as a whole. Although slavery seems to have ample evidence and support in Furstenberg’s work, the musical Hamilton offers minimal evidence of such an issue. In the song, “My Shot,” John Laurens proves to be a very vocal abolitionist: “But we’ll…

travels quickly. Minutes after a major event occurs, hundreds of articles are published in various languages; this shocking speed at which news can now be spread is one of the reasons the world has developed a communal atmosphere. Domestically, nations have created their own community. For example, citizens of a country often feel nationalism for the country they live in or have lived in. Benedict Anderson in his book Imagined Communities explores this idea. The title of the book hints at the…

author of Imagined Communities identifies a nation as an imagined political community that is limited and sovereign, as well. The political community consists of a sect of people who feel as if they are united based on a common ground. The people of a nation feel united and identify themselves as an “us” and people outside of the nation would be considered as a “them”. The limitation in the imagined community is the boarders of the nation, no nation can be considered as infinite. In addition,…

Ethnic Nationalism Source of Communities of Fear Nationalism, according to the most widely accepted definitions of, is the doctrine that the state and the nation should be congruent. However, there is much more to add to the definition of nationalism today in connection to the ethnic and civil society. The definition of nationalism depends on its context. The typology of nationalism defines its strength and/or weakness to its relationship among the community in which it’s defined. While civil…

While the 20th century was a period that saw relatively little interstate conflict in comparison to the past, the void was filled with several kinds of domestic conflicts, especially within colonial territories. It was an era of rapid social and political change that saw the forces of development, modernization, and independence all acting in concert to create insurrectionary movements against government across the globe in Latin America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, among others. The…

One way to distinguish a person from the billions of other people in the world is by looking into their ethnicity. Ethnicity may be simplified as just a person’s origin, but arguments have been made that there is more to the world. Joane Nagel, author of “Constructing Ethnicity”, writes about what makes up the word ethnicity along with its uses in social and political spectrums. According to Diffen.com an ethnic group or ethnicity is a population group whose members identify with each other on…

revolutions. RMAs are useful in revealing how societies capitalize on military revolutions and use them to their advantage. Throughout history, nation states have used RMAs to exploit the advantages of military revolutions derived from the formation of nation states and the French Revolution. The first significant military revolution was the rise of the nation state. In 1648, Europe concluded thirty years of continuous bloodshed over religious alliances . At the conclusion of these conflicts,…

Dual citizenships, it is also called dual nationality. It means that the person has two different nationalities of two countries at the same time. Nowadays there are a lot of countries which allowed people to be nation of two different countries, such as Korea, US, Canada and Spain etc. However, different countries allow people to have different nationalities by different laws and automatic operation. For example, if you are a Korean who born in US, you may be both a US national and a Korea…

The word nation came to English from the old French word nacion, which in turn originates from the latin word natio literally meaning “that which has been born”. (Harper, Douglas) A nation may refer to a community of people who share a common language, culture, ethnicity, decent or history, it can also refer to people who share a common territory and govt. Where Nationalism is a belief system, creed or political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a…