Affluenza is a painful‚ contagious‚ socially transmitted condition of overload‚ debt‚ anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more. It is a powerful virus that has infected the American society‚ threatening our wallets‚ our friendships‚ our families‚ our communities‚ and our environment. Since the United States has become the economic model for most of the world this virus is now flowing freely on every continent. The costs and consequences of this disease are massive even though they
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we have nowadays. In order to understand better the concept of nationalism‚ Anderson starts analyzing the word that is the root of nationalism‚ which is the word nation. Anderson‚ then‚ defines it as “…an imagined political community” that is imagined in both limitation and sovereignty. Anderson uses the word imagined to define nation‚ because he affirms that even the people from a small community‚ will not know everyone from that community‚ or meet them or even hear about them. The people from
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The National Flag of a country depicts its identity in the comity of nations. Every country of any significance has a National Flag. This item of a country identifies itself with the character and the typical characteristics of country. Our Indian National Flag came into existence when we achieved our independence from the foreign yoke - the British rule in India. The flag has been well thought of and made to symbolize the ethics of the Indian people and as such‚ identifies with the people. The
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religion‚ national origin‚ language‚ and race. In the academic world‚ there is a conflict about the theoretical meaning of ethnicity across these specific areas. The American idea of ethnicity involves minorities and their relation to the greater nation-state‚ while the European tradition leans more toward nationalism with regard to decent and geographic location‚ yet they both have centralization on race in the more
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destroyed most of the nation. These events not only tore down Japan‚ but this natural disaster is going to greatly affect the rest of the world and the global economy. Before these events‚ the global economy was stable and now after these events the global economy is going to see a change for the worse. Some nations feel that they can self produce and are not going to be affected‚ but there are some nations that are dependent on the production of some products from other nations. Japan is a highly civilized
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A nation that used to be so great crashed both politically and economically. To restore order and stability to this nation‚ there has to be a complete transformation of the whole government. In order to have that‚ there will be great sacrifices that will be made. If I have to choose one of Confucianism‚ Daoism‚ and Legalism as a governing system. The most effective system would be Legalism‚ because it’s stable‚ strict and strong. Which would led to a powerful nation. The people of the
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the concept of nation and state building. Unimagined Communities In his book‚ Imagined Communities‚ Benedict Anderson defines a nation as “an imagined political community‚ imagined both as inherently limited and sovereign” (Anderson‚ 2006). In this definition‚ we find the key elements that come together to create the feeling of nationhood‚ of which we see that its limitedness in terms of a territorial boundary is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for nationhood. The nation needs to be imagined
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the two last centuries with the industrialisation. It can be considered as a political doctrine or ideology. The definition of Nationalism is not obvious because there are no founding theorist or text on it. This process of nationalism induced nations to existence or self-determination. But extreme nationalism can be a danger. Nationals symbols have been created like language‚ food and drink‚ clothing‚ commemorative holidays‚ military heroes‚ flags‚ colours‚ and anthems. Sport should not be
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student community‚ has adopted wasteful ways of life. The education¬ists and the authorities have miserably failed to harness the youth to useful and nation-building activities. Education must build the nation through such men and women who are mentally alert‚ physically sound‚ morally and spiritually awake. Our future prosperity and welfare of the nation depends upon the kind of education we impart to our young generation and what use they make of it. HOW STUDENTS CAN BEST SERVE THEIR COUNTRY ? In
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ANALYSIS OF CHINA’S NATIONAL INTERESTS BY DR. YAN XUE-TONG 1 Acknowledgment The English version of Analysis of China’s National Interests is a result of many people’s contribution. Professor Monte Bullard deserves profound thanks. He initiated the translation project when I presented him this book at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in 1998 when he served as the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Project there. He raised funds for the translation and did the English
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