Ethnic nationalism

Nationalism is the patriotic attachment one feels to their own country or nation, either from a feeling of collective identity or individual feelings. Nationalism was an important topic of discussion during the early twentieth century because it was one of the main catalysts of the First and Second World Wars. Prior to WWI, a Serbian nationalist terrorist group attacked the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand when he came to visit Serbia to promote positive relations between their nations, killing…

Meanings of Words” and Leong’s essay “Being A Chink” deal with the use of ethnically derogatory language within and outside of their own ethnic groups. In their essays they argue that by using racist language within their own ethnic groups lessen the negativity attached to these words. In addition to lessening negativity surrounding racist language these ethnic groups are able to use these words to their advantage. As Naylor and Leong have stated in their essays, I agree with their position that…

When we hear of an ethnic conflict, many thoughts come into our mind. We start thinking of ethnic groups that ever existed in the world. It is a fight within the people of a nation where a group fights among itself. This generally falls under different schools of thought like essentialism and instrumentalism. According to Dewey, instrumentalism is an attempt to form a logical theory of various concepts, of judgments by mainly considering primarily how thought functions in the experimental…

Nationalism is a topic that I have learned a decent amount about in the past. When I was an undergraduate I minored in Sociology in addition to majoring in History. In three of my sociology courses, Race and Ethnic Relations, Urban Sociology, and Political Sociology, nationalism was a subject discussed within the context of the main theme of the course. Therefore, I had a good understanding of the topic before reading both Imagined Communities and Black London. Both books, however, not only…

Geoff Mulgan suggests that “All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.” Mulgan, the Chief Executive of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts, describes the tendencies of nations to regard themselves as superior. These tendencies drive nations to become stronger often resulting in a superiority complex. Presently, our world is embedded in a rich history that has been influenced by great powers that have existed and still exist today. These…

is how the middle-class travel from, trains and auto mobiles to see and observed nationalism in the United States and experience the cultural environments. The middle class, wanted a sense of peace from the urban- industrialized environment, it was a time for leisure, recreation and scenic discovery. The Urban tourism, white middle class people, considered themselves modern people, they looked at non-radical and ethnic minorities, nonwhites and non-Anglo-Saxons who still lives in back times.…

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…

values turn a blind eye. Bertold Brecht expresses this through one of his quotes. The quote supports civic nationalism because it is criticizing organizations and the government because they should step up and take action in times of crisis to prevent evil from coming into play. There is also aspects of Ethnic nationalism because when evil is present it often causes the intolerance between two ethnic groups. The use of evil is to show the reader that he is talking about something morally wrong…

negative nationalism could be influenced by sport events, including competitions as well as rituals. However, limited attention so far has been paid to the specific ways in which sport and nationalism is associated with each other. So, the purpose of this study is to explore and explain how sport is linked to national identity rest on documentary analysis. The paper is structured as follows. The first section presents main factors contributing to the combination between sport and nationalism.…

modern state is a institutional element responsible for maintaining and managing the process of socialization (Blacksell 2006, 39).Blacksell describes nationalism as the strong identification of national objectives and ideals by the people so as to allow a more definitive and integrated concept of state (Blacksell 2006, 42). Naturally, nationalism plays a key role in transforming states into nations in that it causes the populace to become actively involved in the political and national…