POLS 1201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Primordialism

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Primordialism: ethnic conflict, goldhagen: argued the only way to understand behavior during the holocaust is that there. Instrumental approach was deep seeded anti-semitism even in germans who weren"t committed nazis: browning: nothing german about the behavior, when put in a situation where there"s high pressure to do things, people go to extremes. Experiments: people don"t want to seem weak to their peers and they were put in situations where they felt like they had to do it. No one feels responsible for their own actions. Someone wants people to remember this violence, so the number of atrocities has to be high enough for people to remember: hindu/muslim riots. Most common occurrences of violence along group lines. Riot: an intense/lethal attack by one group civilians to another group of civilians. India: people are attacked because of their membership as muslims. Not target someone who is in the right group.

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