and Social Sciences ATS1325 Contemporary Worlds 1 The partition of India in 1948 led to one of the largest mass migration movements in the world. The successful attainment of independence from colonial rule is also a narrative of religious nationalism‚ displacement and communal violence between the two nation states of India and Pakistan or more definitively the Muslims and Hindus. In Urvashi Butalia’s (2000‚ pp.264-300) “The Other Side of Silence” the oral testimony of Maya Rani‚ a Punjabi woman
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Starting in 1815‚ Europe became quite torn with the various ideologies of liberalism‚ conservatism‚ and nationalism showing up. These beliefs and political views had a huge impact on the many events that happened in the early to mid-eighteenth century. Conservatism basically was an ideology that stressed order and traditional values. They insisted that the government should still be ran by the elite because they were meant to rule‚ and no one else was. They wanted authority to rest in the hands
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Lerzan Gültekin Atılım University in Ankara‚ Turkey lerzan_gultekin@atilim.edu.tr Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyze identity crisis in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient from a postcolonial perspective through the concept of nationalism and national identity‚ emphasizing cultural‚ psychological and physical displacement due to colonization‚ travelling‚ exploration and space / place (cartography)‚ referring to the theories and views of Benedict Anderson‚ Homi Bhabba‚ Franz Fanon
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Patriotism is‚ generally speaking‚ cultural attachment to one’s homeland or devotion to one’s country‚ although interpretations of the term vary with context‚ geography and political ideology. It is a set of concepts closely related to those of nationalism. The English term patriot is first attested in the Elizabethan era‚ via Middle French from Late Latin (6th century) patriota "countryman"‚ ultimately from Greek πατριώτης (patriōtēs) "countryman"‚ from πατρίς (patris)‚ "fatherland".The abstract
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The End of History? – A Reconstruction of Fukuyama’s Thesis. In the closing stages of the Cold War in 1989‚ Francis Fukuyama declared that we were witnessing the end of history. This did not mean the end of events; rather the end of mankind’s ideological evolution. In other words‚ the search for the optimal political and economic system. Fukuyama draws largely on G.W.F. Hegel‚ as interpreted by Alexandre Kojève. For Hegel‚ ‘history’ culminated in an “absolute moment” in which a final‚ rational
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directed his beliefs to adopt various ideologies that conformed with his desire for revolution. Conversely‚ Payne argues that Nationalism completed the establishment of Fascism. This essay will explore these three arguments in order to understand whether Mussolini’s transition from Socialism to Fascism was the result of the war‚ his revolutionary nature‚ or the influence of Nationalism. O’Brien has argued that the developments in the First World War guided Mussolini’s political transition from Socialism
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single market is hard to accomplish with the barriers put in place by the preexisting sovereign nation states. Nationalism is an important part left out of the concepts for a regional organization. Nationalism refers to the acts and thoughts in which a citizens promotes their loyalty to their country. They would rather their country pursue their own self interest rather than another. Nationalism can be a simple act such as waving a flag and singing their national anthem. Countries would be forced to follow
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Student’s Name Professor’s Name Subject 23 April 2012 Sports Literature Review: Austerely k in his work “Sport and Community Organization in the 21st century” states that‚ The facts concerning the benefits of sports contribution to the sports world is not quite strong because of its non sectarian nature. Studies on sports participation are characteristically based on self-report data from individuals and stakeholders implicated in sport programs. They are likely to have a faith in the value of sports
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what it was previously‚ because of globalization. With advances in technology and communications‚ the world becomes deterritorialized‚ the constraints of geography shrink and the world becomes more singular and unified. Talking about the positive or negative effect of globalization‚ some see it as a power that destroys the heritage and culture of different ethnic groups around the world. For them‚ globalization is a nightmare that is happening in the present and will continue for generations. Some effects
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as being negative because a lot of issues we see in our society is that people jumping to conclusions based on what they think they know‚ not off of what they know from experience and real life. Tension and conflict tends to arise frequently with ethnocentrism and this could be a negative effect because with more trouble‚ comes additional issues and lack of proper communication. Let’s take racial profiling for example‚ it being a huge issue in the news‚ blacks are perceived in a negative way that
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