POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: High Culture, Ethnic Nationalism, Communitarianism
9 Jan 2013
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Seemingly obvious answer: the ideology of nations. A nation is a group that wants to have it"s own state. A group of people who believe they share a common fate, history, culture and language. Nationalism says that the state and nation should be congruent. Every nation state has minorities, those minorities will have rights, basic liberal rights (voting, freedom of speech) Some minorities do not have collective rights. Most arabs go to arab schools in israel but those schools are not funded by the government. 12% of americans are african americans, they have individual rights, but not that many collective rights. The united states does not define itself as a nation-state. A state set up to defend the rights of america, as a cultural group. What it means to be an israeli in israel is different than what it means to be an american in america. American definition of being an american is political.
