POLI 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fijians, John Stuart Mill, Arab Spring
22 Apr 2016
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Ideology, religion, race, language, ethnicity, wealth, gender, identity, education, geographic (north vs south, tatoeba) Rwanda: tutsis were murdered in incredibly large numbers, and so were hutus who did not want to murder. Differences between the 2 ethnicities include: height, skin color, noses, surname. Very imaginary differences promoted by the colonial powers, yet ~1mil people were murdered because of it. Bosnia-herzegovina: bosniac muslims, serbs, and croats were divided by religion this led to a large civil war based on ethnic cleansing in the 90s. Sri lanka: tamils and singhalese, led to a large civil war that ended in 09. South africa did a very good job with reconciling racial/language differences through the new government. Fiji didn"t do so hot indigenous fijians have more power than indian-fijians. Indian-fijian was elected, there was a military coup from natives. Switzerland has successfully managed to reconcile its language differences since 1848. Democratic structures (one can design a system that keeps everyone happy)
