Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation

As mentioned previously, nationalism, nation, and national identity are all modern Western constructions that were foreign to Chinese society until the nineteenth century. Through contact with the West and Japan, Chinese society soon understood what these terms meant in the larger international context. They also understood that in order for China to join the West and Japan as international powers, they needed to develop their own nationalism, nation and national identity. The problem China…

Identity is the characteristics, traits and personality that makes someone who they are. The article “Identity Politics Address Real Problems of Discrimination” by Imani Perry suggests that identity, apart from being a “personal possession” is a representation of how a group will be seeing in society. According to this view, different groups will either benefit or suffer the impediments that come along with their identities. Politics play an essential and important role on the way identities are…

Canadian Identity when defined by its scientific advancements from 1981-2000, was impacted positively by the company BlackBerry. BlackBerry was originally called Research in Motion from its date of founding in 1984 up until 2013. This multi-billion company primarily specializes in wireless telecommunications although they have made several smartphones and tablets since 1999. The first reason why Blackberry has positively impacted Canadian identity is because of the company’s Canadian background.…

In the study conducted the researchers used responses from second and fourth graders to explore the meaning of ethnic identity in middle childhood with the help of open ended questions. The researchers found multiple different results in the study. They found that children with age had a better understanding of ethnic identity with their responses being more abstract then observable differences in ethnicity. They also found ethnic differences in the responses of children with different ethnicity…

affairs, England, France, Spain, etc arguably could have attacked the US either at sea or on land. With the support of a European power, America's sovereignty would have more meaning.Further, the United States had envoys in most of the major European nations long before Washington’s farewell address. So, to act as if the U.S. was isolated from the rest of the world and that Washington’s entirety to stay that way was some axiomatic delineation of American foreign policy is simply wrong-headed.…

viewpoint at the time WWI was a time filled with hope. The early twentieth century was a time that promoted national development in Europe and this desire motivated many countries to attempt expansion. This caused tensions to rise between conflicting nations, which then formed two competing forces to arise. Each alliance went into World War I with the expectation of a quick resolution to the problems at hand, but soon realized that the war would prove to be long and detrimental to most of…

other cases the ideal itself was its own undoing. For example in Germany and Italy there was a strong nationalist movement that worked to unite their countries into a single state giving them strong regional power. This worked out very well for these nations being that they were many small states all becoming one larger state. However in France and Austria nationalists undermined their own revolution. France and Austria were already large groups of territory and people under one government. So…

Many people love their country and although many may not agree with everything their country does, most have a deep pride in and will support their homeland no matter what. This is no different for World War 1 era citizens around the world. Without nationalism the Great War would not have been as intense and wide scale as it turned out to be. In the beginning of the first world war, many people wanted to fight to protect and serve their country and what their country believed in. For example,…

mind; to gain control over the Interior of the Continent. The initial task of the conference was to agree that the Congo River and Niger River mouths and basins would be considered neutral and open to trade. But the strong minded leaders of these nations entered wanting to expand their land and their way of living in Africa. The European powers justified dividing a continent among themselves without considering the desires of the indigenous peoples. While this appears extremely arrogant to us…

Microaggressions are verbal or behavioral indignities that communicate hostile, negative insults towards a marginalized group of people, and these indignities can be either intentional or unintentional (Sue 271). Microaggressions can either be demonstrated verbally through insults or non-verbally through behaviors and actions, and the person committing them often fails to notice that they are enforcing a stigma. Although these microaggressions seem to be harmless, minor comments or actions, they…