GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nationstates, Black Sheep, Indirect Rule
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Traditions/rituals (flowers at funerals, wreath/flowers tied to a post on the side of the road) Imagined community? (benedict anderson: all national communities, are imagined communities. If you want to be a citizen in canada, you must not wear a veil to the ceremony. If women wear the niqab, they are not able to obtain their citizenship: voted that you cannot define the canadian culture to what you wear. It is unconstitutionalized: federal government did not agree with this, higher level court agreed with it, veiling their face is a part of their identity to some people, not required but people like to wear them. State (polis: state: refers to the political entity in a given territory, government is a political territory. In the modern system of governance, the mechanisms of power are heavily influence by the state: economic, cultural, military.
