PSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Affirmative Action, Scottish Mythology, Primordialism
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1. class cleavage used to be dominant but has shrunk in value in comparison to. 2. conflict btwn catholics and protestants in northern ireland, new focus on ethnicity/religion/region: scotland struggling to be independent. 1. class historically important cleavage, new cleavages apparent in recent elections with alt-right upswing in response to refugee crisis (syria) smooth bc of problematic naturalization process) 1. independence/partition of india from pakistan,1947; 450 princely states, ** complementary really overlapping ; localized-kurds in north of iraq. 3. bharatiya janata party (bjp, 2014): before election policy of overly integration, after: decisive stance in favor of hindu accommodation and repression of regional movements demanding greater autonomy. 60-80% and indigenous population rising demand to allow indigenous cultures to openly thrive. ***poor, indigenous population concentrated in the south of the country. 2. religion v important: catholicism but class most important. 1. civic nation, not ethnic, but no single unifying national identity.
