GS101 Lecture 3: Nations
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A group of people who regard themselves as being one people. A sense of belonging together as a meaningful group based on shared culture rooted in: Institutionalized and patterned set of beliefs, values, artifacts/cultural products, traditions/rituals, behaviours and practices. Nationalism: the drive of a nation to get its own state. State (polis) influenced by state: economic, cultural, military. Refers to the political entity in a given territory. In modern system of governance mechanisms of power are heavily. Nation-state one nation (cultural group) in one territory with control over. Territorial integrity a state can do whatever it wants within its own. Citizenship undivided loyalties to one particular place, one particular way. One nation per state assumes homogeneity (i. e. sameness) of culture within. Non-interference with the sovereignty of a state is paramount: in the age of (hyper)-globalization, is such cultural homogeneity territorial boundaries of life its affairs borders, i. e. national self determination.
