POLS 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anne Applebaum, Civic Nationalism, Hutu
24 Aug 2016
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For o"neil nations are inherently political while nationalism is the sentiment that nations should have their own state. Where nation and state overlap, identities of the people and the borders of the state coincide. According to o"neil, ethnic groups are distinct from nations in that they do not necessarily have political aspirations. Ethnic groups don"t necessarily want a change or their own state. Ex. in afghanistan there"s a lot of different ethnic groups but they don"t want to change the borders, they want a united afghanistan. In 1994, rwanda experienced extreme violence between the two principle ethnic groups, the hutu and the tutsi, both of which fear being dominated by the other. Both generate solidarity and upheaval within states. If it brings people together then its good, but upheaval often comes with violence. During the 1990s the country of yugoslavia broke up into states which for the most part represented its different ethnic components.
