ANTH 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 73: Ethnic Cleansing, Transnationalism, Javanese People
17 May 2017
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Indian"s mimic americans with their accents at call centers. Processes by which immigrants maintain social, economic, religious, and political ties to both their immigrant communities and their communities back home. Also knowledge that is passes back and forth between nations. Nationalism: allegiance to the nation as a symbolic identity: 18th-20th centuries, nation=contested, anderson imagined communities. Nations divide based on religion, ethic groups, language, culture, boundaries, folklore. Artificial idea ex: canada does not have just one of any of those (many religions, many languages, etc) Ethnic cleansing: when we want people who don"t belong in canada to leave. Tensions between ethnic differences and national identity state strategies. Ex: aboriginal decolonization, india (pre-british 1947) get rid of the colony and make a nation. Difficult with so many different cultures, languages, religions o decolonization results in violence. The process of imposing the islamic religion and associated cultural values within a nation to foster cultural uniformity.
