CHAPTER 2 - WEEK 2: NATIONALISM Flashcards
Has become one of the most significant political and social forces in history
Nationalism
Nationalism is usually associated with
Patriotism
A positive and supportive attitudes to a āfatherlandā
Patriotism
Nationalism can also lead to a
Chauvinism, imperialism, racism xenophobia, militaris, fascism
Aggressive patriotism, or blind or biased devotion to any group, attitude or cause
Chauvinism
Powerful nation extends control to other countries
Imperialism
Like racism but instead of fearing or distrusting people because of the color of their skin they fear them because of their nationality
Xenophobia
Authoritarian political ideology or movement characterized by dictatorial power
Fascism
A group of people identified as sharing any number of real or perceived characteristics such as, common ancestry, language, religion, culture, specific institutions, historic traditions or shared territory
Nation
Why an imagined community is different from an actual community according to benedict anderson
Because imagine community is not and cannot be based on everyday face to face interaction between its members. Instead members hold in their minds a mental image of their affinity
As anderson puts it a nation is imagined because
The members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow members, meet them or even hear them, yet in the minds of each leaves the image of their communion
A nation is an imagine community because
Regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. Ultimately it is the fraternity that makes it possible, over the past two centuries, for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings
Refers to the government and other institutions which run the country
State
A physiological characteristic, what individual identify with
Nation
Almost everyone accepts the state as theirs and make it the primary home of their political identity and loyalty
Nation-state
What are the five definition of nationalism proposed by benedict anderson
- It is an imagined political community that is imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign
- it is imagined because members will never know most of their fellow-members, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion.
- lt is limited because it has finite (having limits), though elastic boundaries beyond which lies other nations.
- It is sovereign because it came to maturity at a stage of human history when freedom was a rare and precious ideal.
- And it is imagined as a community because it is conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship.
It is belief that an __ ___ has a right to statehood, or the citizenship in a state should be limited to one ethnic group
Ethnic group