POL301Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Bangala Language, Ethnic Nationalism, Ethnic Group
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Lecture notes: pol301 ethnicity and ethno-national conflicts in africa. German term) and settlement, but also of political passage, be it escape from oppression or the colonization of new territory which is language. Indeed, many ethnic groups are known by the same name as that of the language they speak. Crawford young(cid:495)s three characteristics of ethnicity: ethnicity is defined by boundaries (cid:498)us(cid:499) and (cid:498)them(cid:499, 1. Theoretical approaches to ethnicity: ethnicity rests upon a variable list of shared cultural attributes (e. g. language, ethnicity is defined by an active consciousness of collective selfhood. 14th century groups realm of emotion: ethnicity is immutable, unchangeable, fixed, conflict based on ethnicity is inevitable, persistence is a given, 2. Artificial creation of ethnicity: referring to ethnicity that is in some cases ascribed through colonialism, some ethnic classifications were initially imposed by outsiders (i. e. belgians in. Congo creating bangala: many africans attribute the consistent legacy of ethnic conflict to the legacy of.