Chinese nationalism

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…

indigenous sports because they are implicitly regarded as politically and economically irrelevant to nationalist discourses within nation-states. There is little possibility of an “indigenous” sport becoming a “national sports (Carter 2002). Even though nationalism is of growing importance, nation states seem to be losing their powers through global and international forces like International Olympic Committee (Jarvie 2006:119). In dealing with this situation, one “indigenous” sport that…

In the late nineteenth century, idea of nationalism emergered as a global phenomenon. People, particularly the scholars, kept arguing about nationalism. Many theories of nationalism were mentioned and discussed. The first theory said that nations emerged a long time ago from earlier communities whose roots in languages, cultures or ethnicites. Nation itseft was a living organism (Bayly, 202). The second theory of nationalism was built by modern historians such as Ernest Geller, Eric Hobsbawn…

Hong Kong served as a safe haven from the Chinese Civil War and Communist uprising. Populations rose and fell as the city’s control was transferred between different countries. As the population increased during the 1950s, the economy suffered as a result of the Korean War. In order to combat this…

a man attempts to impose his small-screen view of political and cultural reality upon a complex world” (Reed 288). Historical incidents such as: “The incarceration of Japanese-American citizens during World War II, the persecution of Chicanos and Chinese Americans, the near-extermination of the Indians, and the murder and lynchings of thousands of Afro-Americans” (Reed 288) have lead to ongoing prejudice in today 's society. Aside from people sensing the need to be superior to others, Reed…

In 1891 editor and owner Daniel Ford approached Francis Bellamy to advertise and promote the sale of American flags for a national magazine. Bellamy took the job opportunity and created the Pledge of Allegiance. In 1892 the Pledge of Allegiance was published for the first time in the magazine, The Youth Companion. In 1898 New York became the first state to legislate the requirement to making it a part of a morning flag salute in schools. By 1917 pledging allegiance to the flag became a fixture…

Stalin to Fascism Review Sheet Vocabulary: Amritsar Massacre an incident in 1919 in which British troops fired on an unarmed crowd of Indians performing acts of civil disobedience Balfour Declaration statement issued by the British government in 1917 supporting the establishment of a homeland for the Jews in Palestine civil disobedience illegal nonviolent refusal to obey unjust laws collective large farm owned and operated by peasants as a large group command economy economic system in…

The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination And The International Origins Of Anticolonial Nationalism was written by Erez Manela in 2007. As stated by the author “This book is an effort to reconstruct the story of the colonial world at the Wilsonian moment.” This book looks outside of the usual mold of international relations which encompass the events following the First World War, and instead Manela looks at how countries outside the European powers viewed the events of the Paris Peace…

The United States is often portrayed as the land of great opportunity. Anything can be accomplished as long as one works hard enough to do so. Many people believe the prosperity of immigrants is tied to how completely they embrace this ideal of the American Dream. While often thought of in a modern context, this idea is seen in older works as well. In Willa Cather’s My Ántonia and Ole Rølvaag’s Giants in the Earth, the attitude with which immigrants approach their new lives decides how…

myth of a common descent and other criteria for what Weber refers to as an ethnic group (Weber 1920, 385; 389). This is not to erase the importance of regional differences in Germany. Rather than being comprised of many different ethnic groups, Germany was considered a conglomeration of different groups that essentially came from the same descendent. While this played into the rhetoric of Nazi Germany, one must be careful not to place this belief in common ethnic decent only on the development…