POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Protecting Group, High Culture, Industrial Society
22 Mar 2013
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An inevitable consequence of economic growth is increasing inequality. Be sure to draw on lectures and course materials to support your answer. Canada- canada is economically growing, and provides equal healthcare to all without discrimination. A nation is a group that wants to have its own state. Nation- a group of people who believe they share the same fate, history, culture and language. Nationalism- says that the state and nation should be the same: ex. The french state should be made up of french people. Every nation-state has minorities within it, and every minority has special rights. In order to be a citizenship it is easier if you are born into an israeli ancestry: americans- black and white. Black population is 12%, they have minority rights, but very little collective rights. You are able to take your citizenship exam in any language, being of any ethnicity therefore, making citizenship purely political.
