Chapter 3 Flashcards
Nationalist Loyalties: Loyalty
-commitment
-allegiance
-devotion
-fidelity
-faithfulness
•loyalties are dynamic
Nationalist Loyalties: Patriotism
- love of ones country or nation
- nationalist loyalties may, but rarely, demand extreme sacrifice
Nationalist Loyalties: Contending loyalties
- loyalties that compete
- may be easy or difficult to resolve
Affirming Nationalist Loyalties: First Nations
-Assembly of First Nations
•an association of the leaders of FN governments
•goal is to protect rights, treaty obligations, ceremonies and claims
Affirming Nationalist Loyalties
-taking action to declare a loyalty
•individually and collectively
Affirming Nationalist Loyalties: Inuit
South Baffin Place Names Project
- reclaiming traditional Inuit place names
- approximately 8000 names
Project Surname
- traditionally Inuit had 1 name
- missionary’s had a hard time pronouncing, so names were replaced with Christian names
- 1930s government assigned personal # to all Inuit
- 1968-70 project surname started
- head of house selected surname
- quite often a relatives given name
Affirming Nationalist Loyalties: pluralistic society
Cultural Pluralism
-cultural groups encouraged to affirm, honour, & promote unique cultural identity in a diverse society
Reasonable Accommodation
- a sincere attempt must be made to reconcile religious & cultural practices with the laws of the land
Newfoundland Regimen
-July 1, 1916- Battle of the Somme
•Newfoundland regimen (778) advanced at Beaumont-Hamel
•68 answered roll call the following day(324 killed, 386 wounded)
-Newfoundland celebrates Memorial Day and Canada day on the same day
-compatible nationalist loyalty
Yugoslavia
- violent breakup into different nations
- incompatible nationalist Loyalties
Sovereignists
-people who support the idea of Quebec becoming an independent nation-state
FLQ
-Sovereignists
Quebec Liberation Front-1970’s
•terrorist group
-October Crisis (war measures act implemented)
Parti Quebecois
-Sovereignists
•Rene Levesque
•provincial political party elected in 1976
•bill 101 (Charter of the French Language)
•Referendums on Sovereignty
-1980- 40% yes 60% no
-1995- 49.4% yes 50.6% no
Bloc Québécois
- Sovereignists
- federal political party
- 1993 election won 56 seats and became the official opposition
Federalists
-people who believe Quebec should remain a Canadian province
-Pierre Elliot Trudeau
•Official Languages Act
-promotes and protects both official languages
Reconciliation
- coming to terms with the past
- mending a broken relationship
- resolving differences
- peaceful coexistence