ENGLISH 3A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Immanence, Immigration Act Of 1924
16 Apr 2017
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Naturalized ideas of who naturally belongs in certain spaces. Fictive action + fiction; constantly being created. Also created about other nations; used as a means to demonize enemies of the state. 221: ideology calls out individuals to oblige to it and so that they can be part of a community. Giving up freedoms in order to get the benefits of being part of a community. National identity is contingent on what the state is not. 1946 (110 000 120 000 people interned) There is an imagined community through things like newspaper and other print tech. Both language and race express the idea that the national character (which might also be called its soul or its spirit) is immanent in the people (224) Forgetting about things like residential schools and slavery and internment histories. Chinese immigration act of 1885 (- head tax)
