POLS 1202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Contact Hypothesis, Irredentism, Modernization Theory
23 Jan 2018
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Pols lecture 13: cultural pluralism and ethnic conflict: political violence motivated by ethnic, racial or religious antagonism a feature of developing world societies. South sudan: christianity & african religion vs. muslim-dominated northern. Tied to tribal, religious, or other ethnic animosities interstates: between 1889 and 2004: 118 armed conflicts in the world, only seven were ethnically based internal warfare: rwanda, yugoslavia, serbia, sudan, lebanon, America, basque terrorism in spain, protestant vs. catholic groups in northern. In times of great uncertainty or crisis, opportunistic social entrepreneurs are likely to create historical myths that give a sense of security in the face of perceived external challenges: the strength of ethnic identity: Ethnic cleavage is more important than class: some ethnic classifications were/are imposed by outsiders: colonial officials. Indian muslims and nigerian igbos are internally divided by class, south. Koreans can be buddhist or christian the igbo peasants identify more assigned all their subjects to a (cid:498)tribe(cid:499) based on some dubious ethnological research.
