PSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Iran National Football Team, Primordialism, Radical Centrism
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Identity structure: the united kingdom, class cleavages used to be dominant still exist and are salient, but are less important than ethnicity, region (esp. Britain during decolonization: new focus on muslims, esp. Muslims: muslim highest population of non-christian religious practice in britain. Drastically increased from 2001 to 2011; next hindu, sikh, jewish, Government responses to ethnic diversity continuum; from recognition to elimination: recognition of independence claims ethno-federalism (iraq, canada, Switzerland) accommodation integration assimilation (historically. American) ethnic cleansing (bosnia; clear the territory) genocide (rwanda; extinguish the people: citizenship laws remained restrictive for immigrants, the third biggest party in germany is intolerant of immigrants. Russia sharper overlapping cleavage division in chechnya success: cleavage structure theory helps explain greater levels of conflict between the. Russian government and region of chechnya: tatarstan: cross-cutting, more balanced negotiations. China: strong emerging class division, resentment of rural poor and ethnic minorities in border regions, ethnicity and region are the most common overlapping group identities.
