- National identity reframed to political views and cultural attitudes that maintain existing power structure…
The different ideas of how the government was supposed to be set up and look separated the colonists greatly. The Federalists wanted a strong central government and the Antifederalists wanted just the opposite. With vague compromises, the framers of the Constitution aimed at settling controversies but they outlasted and later on continued to destroy the new government.…
There are many ways national identity can be described. One may associate it with sharing a nation’s…
The debate about identity is that many believe that it is a ‘crucial part of the individual self, sense of belonging and continuity’ (Schwartz, 2006). Recognition of a country or nation essentially influences ones behaviour in relation to their nation, national identity impacts every aspect of one’s everyday practices; this includes food, education, lifestyle which is adopted and language taught in education (Billig, 1995). Subsequently, the notion of national identity is based on one's place of birth, residence, and religion. However, some scholars argue that national identities have the capacity to be flexible; in regards to Australia, it is possible to attain dual identification. For example, immigrants still have a connection with their homeland while also developing a relationship with their current country of residence.…
Quindlen argued, “without a focus for hatred and distrust, a sense of national identity would evaporate, that the left side of the hyphen — African-American, Mexican-American, Irish-American — would overwhelm the right.” (Paragraph 5, lines 53-56) What Quindlen meant is that we need have to be aware of who we are and where we are from. I we allow the “left side” to take over the right side, then we would all be the same American Despite the hyphen, we all consider ourselves as American. What is an American? Everybody may have different answers but may agree on one thing only.…
The American identity has been a roller coaster, it has many ups and downs and it seems to have been going downhill for quite some time. America is not the way it used to be. Our country was rough in the beginning great in the middle and now it is becoming pretty bad again.…
Latin American women practice the custom of postpartum lying. This period is designed to give a woman the period of rest between…
My way of defining culture is something that makes up your background or something that shapes you. The times of my life have been good and sometimes bad, so that’s how my cultural identity is made up. I have multiple things that makes up my cultural identity, but here’s a few I’ll tell you about. My cultural identity mainly revolves around Food,Clothing & Music.…
This paper examines the emergence of European citizenship as a procedure of merging national (partial) characteristics into a supra-national formation. The paper summarizes the catalysts to the formation of a Pan-demos Europe.…
Farnen, Russell F. Nationalism, Ethnicity and Identity: Cross National and Comparative Perspectives. New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1994.…
Britishness is an arduous word to define nevertheless there are several opinions not only about its definition but about the discussion surrounding the concept. Robbins (1997) examines the historical roots of British national identity, arguing that Britishness can only be understood in relation to the continued existence of local and ethnic identities, the development of overarching institutions, the historical evolution of the idea of "Britain," and Britain 's relationship to the wider world. Furthermore, for Bradley (2007) there are three ways of defining Britishness, through ancestry, civic identity and through values and customs. On the other hand he argues that the concept of “Britishness” is…
CLASH OF CIVILISATION ITS IMPACTS IN IR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DEPARTMENT PRESIDENT UNIVERSITY 2015 WHAT ARE WE DISCUSSING? FIRST TERM SECOND TERM • AN UNDERSTANDING OF…
``The worst thing one can do with words,'' wrote George Orwell a half a century ago, ``is to surrender to them.'' If language is to be ``an instrument for expressing and not for concealing or preventing thought,'' he continued, one must ``let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way about.'' 1 The argument of this article is that the social sciences and humanities have surrendered to the word ``identity''; that this has both intellectual and political costs; and that we can do better. ``Identity,'' we argue, tends to mean too much (when understood in a strong sense), too little (when understood in a weak sense), or nothing at all (because of its sheer ambiguity). We take stock of the conceptual and theoretical work ``identity'' is supposed to do and suggest that this work might be done better by other terms, less ambiguous, and unencumbered by the reifying connotations of ``identity.'' We argue that the prevailing constructivist stance on identity ^ the attempt to ``soften'' the term, to acquit it of the charge of ``essentialism'' by stipulating that identities are constructed, £uid, and multiple ^ leaves us without a rationale for talking about ``identities'' at all and ill-equipped to examine the ``hard'' dynamics and essentialist claims of contemporary identity politics. ``Soft'' constructivism allows putative ``identities'' to proliferate. But as they proliferate, the term loses its analytical purchase. If identity is everywhere, it is nowhere. If it is £uid, how can we understand the ways in which self-understandings may harden, congeal, and crystallize? If it is constructed, how can we…
Leary, Mark R., and June Price Tangney, eds. Handbook of Self and Identity. New York: Guilford Press, 2005.…
Over the years scientists have invented a great number of things, which we now use in everyday life, for example, computers, printing machines, telephones, radio, television, automobiles, photography, electricity, steam engine, planes etc. One of the most useful and handy devices today is the computer. It is a comparatively new invention, which came into use in the 20th century. However, the form of computer was designed already in the mid- 1830s by the British mathematician Charles Babbage. Today, people simply can’t imagine their lives without computers. There is a whole generation which has grown up with calculators, computer games, word processor, Internet and else. Another vital device is the TV. This invention has truly changed the leisure habits of millions of people worldwide. Television was pioneered in the 1920s by Scottish electrical engineer John Logie Baird. He was the first to realize that light could be converted into electrical impulses, which are then transmitted over a distance. Electricity, perhaps, is even more important. We wouldn’t be able to use computers and TVs without it. The invention of electricity dates back to the 19th century and is connected with such renowned names as Michael Faraday, Alessandro Volta, Humphry Davy and Andre Marie Ampere. For the invention of telephones we should be grateful to Alexander Graham Bell. He is an Edinburgh-born scientist who patented the invention of telephone in 1876. A year later a great American scientist Thomas Edison produced the first working telephone. The invention of different types of transport has also changed the world, for example, airplanes and motor cars. Planes have brought distant lands within easy reach of ordinary people. American-born Wright brothers were the first to make the flight in 1903. The first petrol-driven car was produced in 1885 by the German engineer Carl Benz. Whether we like them or not, cars have given people great freedom of travel.…