GOVT2117 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Soviet Union, Nationstates, American Civil War
17 Jan 2019
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A group whose members share a belief in a common ancestry. Nation based on geography, non-ethnic lines like the us. Some nations don"t have their own states but would like to eg: palestine, zionist movements, kurds. Multinational: multiple nations within the same state eg: ussr or nationalist: canada, uk: would like to become their own state. A movement that seeks to acquire a state for a nation. Examples: anti-colonial movements (e. g. , india, scattered among different states (e. g. , kurds, separatist movements (e. g. , quebec, scotland) Continuum with four levels: objective differences, cultural pluralism, politicised ethnicity, and ethnic violence. 1. objective differences: physical but never become salient (does not really affect life) but subjectivity salient: categorizing these differences. The distinction between color and other forms of ethnic identification thus derives largely from the failure to distinguish between ranked and unranked systems of ethnic relations. 2. culturalism pluralism: objective differences salient at societal level. People divided into identifiable racial groups, language groups, religious groups, etc.
