Commonwealth of Nations

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…

two phenomena: First is the attitude or behaviour that the members of a nation have when they care about their national identity, and second is the actions that the members of a nation take when seeking to achieve or sustain self-determination (Miscevic,2014). Nationalism has been a part of the history of every Filipino. Nationalism is not just a sentiment but also a political…

he traditional and mainstream theory of national cultures is known as the onion metaphor introduced by Hofstede in 1991. According to it, cultures are defined by strict political national boundaries, emphasizing nationality and the importance of nation-states. The onion model describes different layers of a culture, meaning that in the surface of the onion there are the practices of culture, that is, symbols, heroes, and rituals. The core of the onion depicts the core of a culture including…

There is no clear, cut and dry answer for the question “What makes a good president?” There are, however, certain shared characteristics that good leaders have shown to possess. Most people recognize these traits and while opinions may slightly differ, the vast majority of people incorporate such characteristics into their beliefs of what makes a successful president. A key example of this was made apparent to me when I brought up the discussion of what makes a good president with my mom.…

Australia prides itself on the fact that it is a multicultural society. Our status of cultural diversity is far beyond some other countries and with that, we stand by what we believe in to lead as example in the hope that other countries follow suit. Home to one of the world’s longest surviving cultures, the interconnectivity between Australian citizens and culture is growing for the better and expanding ever so greater into the future. Unfortunately, Australia has not always matched its…