POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Communitarianism
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Nationalism: political organization is states and nation states states are set up, they defend the culture and political interest of the group. State and nations should be congruent but there are minorities: basic liberal rights vs. collective rights. Ex1: israel: non-jews have collective rights but disagree as a collective right (have less rights) Ex2: us and blacks: hardly any collective rights but the head of state can be black. However not a nation states i. e. different to be an american in america rather than a. Jew in israel because the definition of citizenship is different. Americans have political loyalty which is not a cultural definition of a citizen. How did the world get nationalism: nationalism is the ideology of the nation (used to believe). Now, nations have common fate, history, culture, language as they try to impose culture. Nations don"t exist in themselves but are created by nationalism (we feeling).
