GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Economic Liberalism, Quiet Revolution, Minority Group
Document Summary
Consider the following: in 1995, 49. 4% of the quebec population voted in fvour of separation from canada, in september 2014, 45% of scots voted in favor of separating from the uk. Powerful new sentimetents making a difference in well-established regions that were assumed to be coherent in political status. Many were skeptical, seeing larger political units in the future: Political boundaries as a impediment to their political project. Regional cultures will pass away, people"s identities will not be associated with territorial culture, but become cosmopolitan values. New model in globalized world: but there are 16 areas of regional nationalism in western europe at present, urging further political division on cultural grounds. Given rise to many new nations states since 1990. Why the new nationalisms: ethnic division of labour; internal colonialism(ireland) Top jobs in a region that isn"t rapidly growing, are being acquired by those who are a minority group in the region.
