The Nation

The quote is saying that we as a nation depend on our common beliefs and values and the myths of our struggling community to come together to overcome hardships. A feeling of belonging is what brings people together to form nations. Nations can be based on ethnicity, language, culture, religion, geography, relationship to land, spirituality, or politics. A good nation and the best nations are civic nations because we all have the same beliefs and values and it doesn’t matter what race, colour, creed, gender, ethnicity we are, or what language we speak, it simply doesn’t make a difference to the nation. The principle of the common people is saying that we all choose to live together, if we didn’t have the same beliefs and values we could move away instead of being in a constant state of war with each other. Not…

1- Can any nation-state be considered a ‘civic’ nation? It is critical to commence with a definition of the concept at the heart of the discussion as a way of setting the stage for the present discourse. The concept of civic nationhood is applied in reference to the identity in politics formed from common citizenship that thrives in a liberal state (Smith, 2013). The concept of a civic nation, therefore, goes beyond subjective variables, such as culture, language, customs or traditions of the…

consider the changes that have taken place in the world over a grand space of time, and the word nation embodies this. Nation is a word that has gone through drastic changes in meaning over a great period of time. This word truly demonstrates how a word evolves with the cultures that use them. It evolved from a derogatory ancient Roman word applied only to foreigners’ lands to a modern English word to describe a place controlled by a government. It has had different meanings that have evolved…

The Jewish Nation The Jewish nation is in every single place you go. The Jewish nation has not had their own country in a long time, so they have had a trouble settling. Since they never had their own nation, they have been bullied and moved so much yet they develop more and more everyday. The Jewish nation is heavily cultured and has a strong, rich history of tribulation and success and it can be traced to its origins and the development of the nation to see what an excellent nation it has…

The Construction of Nation Identities Shiyi Chen Arts Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 64805161 ABSTRACT This discussion paper explores the importance of the construction of a nation’s identity and assumed ways in which this construction can be made. Two possible ways have been suggested: 1) building a brand and associating it with specific sign values, through this gain the support to national identity; 2) localizing foreign brands or products, enriching them with…

Many people believe that a population sharing a similar worldview and ideas about themselves make up a nation. A nation can mainly be developed through shared linguistic, ethnic, cultural, religious, spiritual, geographic and political understandings(Social Studies Textbook pg 25). Canada may provide the freedom of thought, belief, opinion, and expression, including the freedom of peaceful assembly and association, but I personally believe that the feeling of belonging isn’t part of this…

INTRODUCTION The First Nation people underwent lots of changes during the pre-contact to the fur-trading period and then again in the settlement period. The Prairies region in the western Canada consists of the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The First Nation people who lived there consist of Kwakwaka’wakw, Tsimshian, Haida, Cree, Athapascans, Blackfoot, Metis etc. During the pre-contact period the lifestyles of the First Nations peoples underwent many changes such as adjusting…

A revolutionary, but flawed man, President Woodrow Wilson blamed Europe’s fragile infrastructure on its dependence on a balance of power, and so he proposed his Fourteen Points at the Paris Peace Conference and with it the groundworks for an effective peace with the creation of a League of Nations. The League would serve as an international parliamentary system responsible for the maintenance of peace through a system of collective security, whereby external aggression against a member nation…

First Nations people in Canada comprised the different cultures the six geographical groups. The differences occurred in spiritual beliefs, food resources, and social organization. The first group, the woodlands first nations comprised of independent groups who possessed great courage and skills for hunting. The Iroquoians were excellent farmers and had permanent settlements that enabled them to have democratic systems of government. The Huron-Wendat based their leadership on councils that made…

currently the reconciliation issue of residential schools. The policing of persons belonging to the First Nation community in Canada are not fair nor equal compared to the policing of other Canadians such as Caucasians. “It’s (sic) could be a suicide, accidental, she got drunk and fell in the river and drowned who knows … typically many Aboriginals have very short lifespans, talent or not,” said the comments posted to the Facebook account of the police officer in question. These comments were…