POLI 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ethnic Conflict, Hutu, Socalled
18 Mar 2016
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A set of institutions that bind people together through a common culture. These institutions can include language, religion, geographic location, customs, appearance, and history among other things (o"neill, p. 59). Example: singaporean society is made up of ethnic chinese, malay and. Not inherently political: ascriptive, generally assigned at worth. Ascription: as these features are institutionalized, they become recognizable for external observers. External observers can recognize ethnic groups as a well defined collectivity. In most cases, ethnic identity is not completely clear. Ethnic identity can become conflictual when the solidarity generated by those shared features creates distrust towards other groups (in-group trust versus out-group trust: it leads to xenophobia. Most countries are not ethnically homogenous: society and ethnicity are rarely the same. Ethnicity, at its core is a social, not political identity. There is no master list of differences that automatically define one group as ethnically different from another. Ethnic conflict: conflict between ethnicities without any political aspirations: rwanda: hutu, tutsis.
