POLS 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Rwandan Patriotic Front, Rwandan Genocide, Tutsi
10 Oct 2016
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A sense of collective identity in which a people (the ethnic group) perceives itself as sharing a historical past and a variety of social norms and customs. The kinds of holidays they celebrate and how they celebrate them. How you communicate with others, language or dialect. The way certain words are used can demonize people. Words are important in the power relations between groups. Tribe and tribalism have a negative connotation. Africa is a tribe while western states are nations, this is a double standard. People are linked by some sort of common ancestry. People are born and raised to a specific ethnic community and are socialized as to the social customs, collective memories and language of their people. The constructivist school or the invention of ethnic identity. It is not real in any sense of concrete genetic terms. Identity emerges as a consequence of interaction or manipulation by others.
