Commonwealth of Nations

Good Morning Mr Callanan and boys can I ask you a question… what does it mean to be Australian. Being Australian means that you are resilient, persistent and understanding while holding a free and egalitarian society with great importance. Being Australian means you’re not afraid to give something a go weather or not the outcome was is what you wished it to be. This Identity that has developed around us began in the 1920’s with the hardened Bushmen that persevered through the incredibly harsh…

Roberts-Smith evokes his love of our nation through a plethora of appeals to loyalty and patriotism. He begins to remind the reader of the importance of family and friends on a well ‘respected’ day. He explores the conventional traditions of Australia Day from the clichéd ‘barbeque on the beach’…

fathers, of our nation, outlined the factors that would contribute to the formation of a more perfect union, it is understood that war wasn’t a step within the process of conflict resolution. On the contrary, as the nation pursued its most controversial combat, the Civil War, it revealed that the results of a battle as such could be beneficial to the nations’ survival. Furthermore, the war was able to assist with the transformation of the United States into a new and improved nation. This is not…

nationalism was brought to a country or destroyed it. Nationalism in Europe in the 1800s brought both positive and negative effects to society. One positive force of nationalism was groups of people were starting to come together for one cause, but some nations used radical ways to get everyone together. In Italy, Giuseppe Garibaldi recruited a 1,000 red-shirted volunteers and they won control of Sicily. The sense of nationalism brought the idea of volunteering for your country for unification…

“Look, while they stayed the order of battle, the fields of wealth always maintain well enough by the hands of subjects or servants, though the fields of poor people just remain desolations, then the people must owe a debt, and became slaves in a trade. Who is responsible for it?” In short, patriotism is an aggressive, militaristic sentiment like what “gives honor to the man who would beat down foreign people,” and just a brutal instinct. Besides, the politicians who agitate the public…

ideas resulting in the dismissal of 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…

First, the reinvention of an identity outside of the ‘western’ philosophies enables flow and connection between culturally relevant nations. This transnationalism allows a certain mobility, a transposed ideology aiding a resurgence of national identity and the place in the world which it takes. Contrastingly, the forced removal of an individual from the strongly related national identity…

Day after day, one could walk around his or her neighborhood and greet passing neighbors with a familiar ease. However, all of these neighbors that one might see have personalities very unique from each other. Their cultures identities are all very different because of which country they originate from or something like the religion they practice. This idea of a cultural identity is what makes everyone who they are as an individual. Cultural identity could be portrayed in language, perspective,…

Ethnicity; a form of classification that’s primary focus is birth place, but is nonetheless based upon all aspects of social background including national identity, language, and in broader terms, sharing essential cultural values. Although, the prospects for which it is based upon are objective facts, in this essay we will be critically analysing: to what extent is ethnicity socially constructed? In order to answer the question, we will look what is a social construct; how’s and why’s ethnicity…

America is a democracy, and the government can only act upon us as much as we, the people, allow them to. Looking as far back as the seventeenth century, during the Thirty Years War in Europe and the Civil War in England, it was established that the nation-state should have sovereign control over external security as well as domestic affairs. Though there were probably many different interpretations on intervening in general external affairs, such as the control of foreign countries for…