Chinese nationalism

on being a country that people can trust to be welcoming and compassionate. Since the first world war, Canada’s participation and success on the battlefields did the most to create a sense of distinct nationhood; resulting in a flood of cultural nationalism across the country. However, in recent years, Canada’s familiar reputation for being a peacekeeping nation quickly changed as a certain political party took over the country. Spending billions of dollars to send troops on assassination…

In Empire of Cotton, we can observe that the industrialized cotton production, once linked metropole and colonies together, propelled nationalist independence movements in the 20th century. Facing the labor unions demanding high wages, European and North American cotton manufacturers relocated their factories to the Global South to acquire cheap labors. The relocation was accompanied by the ideology of industrial capitalism, modern cotton manufacturing technology, managerial skills in factories,…

Patriotism can in many ways be defined as the love one has for their nation or homeland. Patriotism appears in many ways, shapes, and forms across the world and has been evident for millenniums. The United States of America is filled with pride and love toward the nation and contains patriotism in almost every aspect. George Orwell writes in the novel 1984 about a dystopian society where everyone loves the Party and their nation Oceania. The United States of America and the nation of Oceania…

able to perceive several elements that characterize his work to be knowledgeable, thought-provoking, and obscure. Although difficult to decipher because of his abundance of knowledge, it became evident through his reading that he detested ideas of nationalism; relatively alike, the indication of commonwealth principles, too. Despite the fact that nationalist activities were flourishing in this era, and commonwealth doctrines were supplicating to be practiced, Nietzsche unequivocally expresses…

America has been built off of the goods produced from generation to generation. It has been acknowledged that American people are known for their patriotic acts. Americans are always trying to give back to their community, develop jobs, show patriotism, and grow the economy immensely. America was formed from the hardworking man. Giving foreign countries the jobs that the American people deserve is an abomination. As American people we need to show patriotism and give the country hope once again.…

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…

“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…