POL101Y1 Study Guide - Collective Action, Switchman, Kyoto Protocol
19 Apr 2011
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never existed in history til recently--- no congruence between nation and state til 100 years ago: congruence of cultural group and state- only under modern, need for congruence: conditions, nationalism and modernization. high culture and low culture: european monarchs and populations just spoke whatever language, all different. social creations form nations www. notesolution. com: washington: architecture designed to awe/ intimidate, sequencing, state first, nation second: france and britain- nation building", nation first, state second: germany and italy- unification in 1890s, countries after ww1 are multinational. significant ethnic minorities: issues of accommodation, population exchange, extermination, ethnic vs civic nationalism, basis of belonging: cultural or political, ethnic- share culture, born into culture, civic- political allegiance. membership based on allegiance is somewhat thin identity: canada: liberalism vs. communitarians, individual vs. group rights, ex. Official holidays- multiculturalism: is it real: state fund and preserves ethnic groups, multiculturalism- positive: great cooperation; costs: contact hypothesis against solidarity.
