...First Nations are essential to Canada’s history as it provides a way of understanding what the country was like before the Europeans colonized the country. In Canada, there are various First Nations who have different traditions but also have many similarities. The two First nations that will be compared will consist of The Wasauking First Nation and The Mattagami First Nation. Although both of these First Nations are hundreds of kilometres away, both reserves share common similarities throughout. First Nations may have different cultures, but in the end many share resemblances that can be seen across the country. The Wasauking is a First Nation that is located near the city of Parry sound. In order for the people to survive, employment is...
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...definition of a state is an organized body of institutions that hold a monopoly of coercive powers over a territorial area. Unlike a nation, membership of a state is objective with citizenships assigned which clearly shows the legal status of a person. A state has a fixed territory, which its power does not extend. The state is a sovereign entity; a state cannot exist without a centre of sovereignty that is in control of the territory as sovereignty is at the heart of the formation of a state. Normally a state is characterized as having for major components: population, sovereignty, government and territory. If one of these is missing the state is unable to exist. States don’t have to take into account individual’s thoughts towards belonging to a state, as they are purely political bodies. A nation is defined by a community, which is united by a numbers of elements. These include; land, culture, language, tradition and a mutually accepted identity. Being part of a nation is more of a psychological bond supported by patriotism. Therefor it is subjective. The individuals themselves therefor decide upon membership. Patriotism is defined as a strong emotional attachment to an individual’s homeland and therefore giving their primary allegiance to the nation over all other aspects like religion. Nations do not necessarily have a defined geographical area however nations are still able to survive such as the case of the Kurds, which can be found in Turkey, Syria, and Iraq or the Jews. They are...
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...What is a Nation? A nation is an identity shared by a large number of people based on, but not reducible to things such as ethnicity, language, religion, customs and government. To break it down more you have Ethnic Nations and Civic Nations. Ethnic Nation is where national identity is based on such things as language, ancestry and religion, contrary to Civic Nations where national identity depends primarily on acceptance of the political order. Canada became a nation in 1867 from the fathers of confederation. But what kind of Nation state is Canada, in the beginning of Confederation Canada was a Bi-National state (where two nations co exist within a single state.) The two nations were made up of Anglophones and the Francophones, therefore it had two Ethnic Nations represented, however this did not include our aboriginals. Some people argue that present day Canada is a Multi-National state (where three or more nations share a single state.) This time referring to three Ethnic nations inside of our state, Anglophones, Francophones, and now to include our Aboriginal. However, I do not feel that this represents Canada in its entirety. I believe that modern day Canada is a Preponderant Nation state (Where a single nation is preponderant, but significant minorities exist with the state.) I believe that Canada is first a Civic Nation, our identity depends on acceptance of the political order, however there are many Ethnic Nations inside of our Civic Nation. In order for...
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...Introduction The word nationalism was created in the late 18 centuries, but it only got popular from the 1830s. It used to convey the idea of identification with a nation in which a group of people shares common ancestry in the early time, but later it began to link with patriotism and with aspirations to statehood. This concept became widely accepted by more and more people during twentieth century. Nationalism now is defined as a subjective feeling of a membership in a nation; a belief that a nation should form the state, or a belief that the identification with the nation should be above all other forms of identity. Nowadays Nationalism has set off a wave around the world. Primordialism and constructivism can be used to explain this phenomenon. We will see the key arguments of both theories. The first one is primordialism. Key arguments of two theories The emergence of the theory of primordialism was in the second half of the eighteenth centuries, in general, primordialism assumes political identity are innate and largely unchanged. It comes with when you are born or in nature way. Since the identity is with you by born, so it’s extremely difficult to choose or change it. Primordialism is an argument, which contended that political identity is ancient, natural phenomena. It emphasis that identify of nation is decided by nature. Identify is extremely difficult to change. It advocated that importance of cultural traits exist...
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...Anglophone Socio-cultural Environment “Nations have always existed” Mihaela Vasileva Savova Matriculation № 025067 17.05.2004 In my opinion this statement-“Nations have always existed”-is not true. There are several stages of the human evolution until the word “nation” appears as a term. In fact these stages are three - ethnos, nationality and nation. “Nation” is the last level of social development. My thesis is based on historical evidences and views of famous historians. The conclusion I made, after getting acquainted with some sources, is that nations have developed during the XVth or XVIth century, more precisely after the Great French Bourgeois Revolution in 1789. The nation is not the first step in human development. According to Professor Lachesar Dachev’s textbook “Studies for the state”: “The humans form many and different unions. The most general and basic is the “ethnos”. … The ethnos is the first and the original characteristic of every man. There is no man without an ethnos.” Another definition of ethnos is made by J.V.Bromlay and V.I.Kozlov: “The ethnos is strange historically formed kind of social group of people, united form of their existence. It is set up and develops in natural-historical way; it does not depend on the resolution of the individuals in it and is capable of existence in many centuries thanks to its reproduction.” The first kind of ethnical union is the tribe. Tribes are formed on the base of blood relationship which is...
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...Ghosh centers around a young boy, the narrator, whose growth in age and maturity is traced slowly through his understanding of the memories that connect him and his family members. Through the book, we watch him move backwards and forwards in time as bits and pieces of stories, both half-remembered and imagined, come together in his mind until he arrives at an intricate, interconnected picture of the world where borders and boundaries mean nothing, mere shadow lines that we draw dividing people and nations. The title ‘The Shadow Lines’ is the author’s commentary on the artificial nature of cultural, ideological, geographical and psychological borders, which he asks us to disregard in favour of a broader humanism. The titular ‘shadow lines’ can refer to many different things, but I believe the fundamental allusion he makes is to the borders that separate nations from each other. Divisions between nations - shadow lines Amitav Ghosh asserts that the borders that separate nations are nothing more than artificial lines created by men. Thus, the ‘shadow lines’ of the title are the borders that divide people, and one of the main emphases of the novel is on the arbitrariness of such cartographic demarcations. Why are these lines ‘shadowy’ then? Because like shadows, they lack substance, they lack meaning. Ghosh believes that these ‘shadow lines’, these meaningless borders, can and should be crossed – if not physically, then at least mentally through our imagination and through...
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...the North and South, King gained extreme popularity within the African American community. When Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated a wave of sorrow spread across the nation. With rage, sadness, and hopelessness in the public eye, clearly the assassination hurt more than just one man, it hurt a nation. A single shot killed 39-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. At the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, a sniper from about “50-100 yards away,” shot and struck Dr. King’s neck, while instantaneously killing him (“Martin Luther King Slain” 139). From the crime scene, F.B.I. investigators traced a “white Mustang automobile,” and an “‘unusually large’ amount of physical evidence” (Waldron 1). With fingerprints, the actual rifle, and eyewitnesses as definite pieces of evidence, F.B.I. agents concluded that a Caucasian man executed the assassination and that he would be very easily caught (Waldron 1). Eyewitness testimony even stated that the “saw a white man [ran] from the house immediately after the shooting” (“Martin Luther King Slain” 140). As a shocking and horrific event, the assassination of Dr. King proved to test the nation’s character. Shortly after the news of Martin Luther King’s assassination spread, “sporadic violence erupted in Harlem and Brooklyn’s . . . section . . . in two predominantly Negro communities” (Johnson 1). With a total of twelve men arrested and violence breaking out all around the section, “police reinforcements, including elements...
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...Animosity between two countries often results to chaos and has gripped the world in terror. It has been centuries ago and yet, it is still prevalent among mankind along with sufferings and poverty for some countries. Number of people said that the disagreement between two countries should only be addressed by the parties involved. This is because, for some reason, peace and understanding can only be achieved if particular leaders of both territories will try to talk and to figure out each other’s mistakes. Also, it was mentioned that if a certain country will take part, there’s always a chance of taking sides in which will bring more misunderstanding and problem to both parties. So it’s necessary to have an open-mind and an open-heart to bring a better solution that will benefit both parties without needing the help of other leaders overseas. On the other hand, to easily eradicate the conflict, many people believed that it is still best to involve other powerful countries. They said that if an influential leader will pursue to solve the negative occurrence, there is a greater chance that one or even both parties will cease their arguments and will let the stronger nation conclude the issue/s. Thus, bringing the best solution and developing ideas that will resolve and will even prevent the conflict in the future. For an instance, USA as the most powerful country and consequently the leader of the United Nation, will order to layoff the conflict between two countries whose under...
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...difficult childhood. Born in 1930 during the Japanese occupation in the Chung , her parents were both forcibly taken from her. Her father was vocal about his opposition to the Japanese – even making a comment at the local market about the wrongness of Japanese occupation – and was later forcibly taken and enlisted in the Japanese army in 1937. He is presumed dead. Her mother was taken away to be a comfort woman, leaving this character with no family since she was an only child of relatively young and recently married parents. Her aunt on her mother’s side took her in because she lived nearby, but she already had two sons and highly favored her boys. My character came to believe that not only was she less favored because she was a girl, but the aunt blamed her father for why the character’s mother had been taken away. The family attempted to learn whether either of the two parents were still alive through several shaman ceremonies, which were both dangerous and expensive, but all declared that they were both dead. After ten years, the family decided to give up hope. During the Korean War, since the family lived in Cheongyang, the armies continuously came through the region as the battlefront wavered between North and South, burning and killing as they went. In June, 1951, this character was out in the family’s small agricultural field when a white American soldier attacked her and raped her. She was fortunate to live through the trauma and that her aunt allowed her to stay in...
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...The Concept of a Community is imagined Communities are imagined so basically Anil’s ghost which is her national identity is imagined and colonial war goes out prove and reveal the truth that these imagined identities are fake and that the only true identifies are ones carved by individuals. The concept of "nation" is truly a cultural construct Nation, and identity, begins with one's family and closest friends, and slowly moves out from this center. In our contemporary example, two residents of the same country may live in completely different geographical climates, having very little in common with each other. In such a case, one may have a personal identity, and identify with a more local "nation," yet be part of a political nation as defined by demarcated boundary lines, drawn on a map. In his definitive book about the concept of "nation" and "nationalism," Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson says, "In an anthropological spirit, then, I propose the following definition of the nation: it is an imagined political community--and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign" (Anderson 5). This does not necessarily mean that the imagined nation is a concept that is fundamentally bad. Although merely imagined, a national identity is something that holds a diversely different group of people together to prevent war. As Anderson says, "All communities larger than primordial villages of face-to-face contact (and perhaps even these) are imagined" (Anderson 6). Identity...
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...1.png http://i.embed.ly/1/display/resize?key=1e6a1a1efdb011df84894040444cdc60&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FB616JqWIcAA33We.jpg translation: Charlie's ladies ... all veiled women mourn What is Nationalism? many definitions, talking about common culture, language, heritage, etc. one that I found interesting was: “ideology based on the premise that the individual’s loyalty and devotion to the nation-state surpass other individual or group interests.” Examples of nationalism: Germany, Japan in WWII, Greece, Russia, to get modern… Where has nationalism led to? War! Immigration: The first wave of immigration...
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...Nationalism is derived from an extreme love and passion toward one's nation, and the need for its cultures, values, and influence to be spread. Between the years 1850 and 1914 in Europe, the growth of this nationalism, especially in the countries of France, Germany, Italy, and Russia became a positive force in uniting and improving their nations. As France stumbled past the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, a new, popular leader was elected in a landslide- Napoleon III. Known for his name and plan as a Realpolitik, combining a conservative strength with a liberalism attitude to work together, Napoleon was able to improve the voting rights through universal male suffrage, education and jobs, and also create a lasting impact by modernizing Paris...
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...events in question. In an age where political perspective is often spoon-fed to us by dueling cablenews networks and political talk-radio shows, it is no wonder that our nation’s history is a hot topic for debate. A common perspective in conservative circles is that liberals seek to use the educational system to indoctrinate the nation’s youth. Although, a current issue in rebuttal to this may be the Texas textbook controversy. The Texas State Board of Education recently chose a version of American history for its classrooms which deviates too far to the Right of center for its critics. The debate has largely made mainstream waves because of the national implications. Because Texas is among the largest purchasers of textbooks in the nation, it wields great influence on...
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...Chapter 1: Q: You are a U.S. citizen recently assigned as the manager of distribution in a European country where bribery is relatively acceptable. Your job description includes responsibility for accepting shipments as they enter the local port authority. On your first trip down to the docks to sign for a shipment, the customs agent in charge asks for a “tip” to clear the goods for pickup. The value of the incoming shipment is around $150,000. Knowing that the government has recently launched an initiative to reduce corruption, how do you react? If additional information would be helpful to you, what would it be? Min 700 words (this includes the question)A: To my point of view as a manager this would be a very difficult situation. To begin I would be in a complete different country, which means and I know the customs, rules, and laws are not the same. First I would need additional information such as, what would the governments initiative consist of. For example if the government’s initiative consist of making bribery illegal. Also if people could report a bribery, to the police and it would be considered a crime. Or even if people would be willing to work undercover to see which of the major companies are participating in bribery or supporting it. In my opinion this would be since I would work for a company that receives goods through the port. Also I would need to know more of my company. For example what if this bribery or “tip” occurs only for companies that are surrounded...
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...A Nation is a culture group living within a territory of a political state. A group of people are a nation if: They are a permanent resident of a defined territory, they have some form of government. They have a common culture, and they declare to be and are considered by others to be Sovereign (Perry, J. A., & Perry, E. K. (2009). For instance North American Native Indian peoples which consist of many diverse nations. The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is one example of this. Even though the Cherokee nation and other Native American nations live within the U.S. most have retained their own cultures apart from America and live in land areas or reservations within U.S. states. The definition of State is the abstract embodiment, or the symbol, of the political institution. The State is the formal representation of government. One example of State is Scotland. Scotland is a country and is part of the United Kingdom. A Nation-State is a state ruling over a territory containing all the people of a nation and no others. A nation-state has fixed territory, sovereignty, and common cultures. If it doesn’t have all three then it’s not a nation-state. One example of a nation-state is Iceland. Most of the inhabitants are related or are of Scandinavian decent. They have their own national culture and language that is only found in Iceland. Iceland has no cross border minorities this is because it’s not close to any other land, thus giving it fixed boarders. (Perry, J. A., &...
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