Ethnic nationalism

The quote ”A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on the myths of a struggling commonality”express the fact that a nation is built on the coming together of common citizens as well as establishing a feeling of struggling. This feeling creates an environment where our society feels it must work hard to keep the nation together. Andrew O’Hagen has taken the reality of different nations in our world and has put them into one sentence. Andrew O'Hagen's view is one of…

multiculturalism” group, he doesn’t have faith that “hard multiculturalism” could be achieved because the history of the racial nation is too powerful. Gerstle questions the ability for hard multiculturalism to succeed. As he says on page 317, "Can civic nationalism regain it 's older authority without resorting to new patterns of exclusion?" He also questions the rehabilitation of the racial nationalist tradition. Gerstle strongly believes that the American civic nation is not capable of being…

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…

spark needed to ablaze warfare on a global scale. Despite this, many historians bring forth the rise of nationalism as the leading instigator of war. Nationalistic pride can be seen as a primary motivator in the development of secondary causes of war such as the formation of alliances, imperialism and militarism. Every action that contributed to the start of the war can be tied back to nationalism, thus making every other cause of war less immediate. Due to this, I believe that nationalism’s…

actions and desires of the Korean immigrants that resided in the United States. These Korean immigrants changed from sojourning migrant laborers to political wanderers, fighting and promoting nationalism while also searching for other methods to assist their homeland. Besides their strong sense of nationalism which set these Korean immigrants apart from the others, the activities of the Korean women, especially in Hawaii due to the large portion of Korean immigrants there, also differed…

that countries whom embraced nationalism fostered a feeling of superiority that is appealing to many individuals. Rich states that many of these nationalist countries oftentimes engage in programs of massive indoctrination, compulsory military service, and the manipulation of the press through propaganda. This is a direct link to the First World War because many of these countries did not want to lose control of their colonies, thus, prioritizing the control of ethnic groups and colonies over…

populations. These motivations include the convenience of using the persecuted group as scapegoats and advancing the idea and acceptance of the “stab-in-the-back” myth, establishing racialized narrative of superiority among groups, the radicalization of nationalism in government caused by any number of issues such as perceived economic disparity to power imbalances, and lastly the diffusion of responsibility. Scapegoats & The Stab-in-the-Back Myth After the embarrassing loss of World War I and…

For week eleven, the topic for the set of readings was based upon how nationalism is formed in countries as well as several factors that go into modern state building, post-colonialism. The 1950s seemed to be an era where several European countries were letting go many of their colonies, especially in Africa. Relationship between these states seems to be one where it has left a significant impression on the colonized, affecting not only their history but how these states would develop their own…

Introduction The question at issue: How would each ideology, Nationalism, and Liberalism, answer the question of “Educational Authority”? II. Nationalism can be defined as the following: o An ideology that is identified with the nation-state (Gutek, 2014) o According to Steven Gosby, “it refers to a set of beliefs about the nation, focusing on its value and worth and the desirability of belonging to it” (Gutek, 2014, p.196). o Instills “love of country and the nation” (Gutek, 2014, p. 203)…