National Identity

Question 1

Phillips

Answer 1

• national curriculum supports ideology of nationalism
• history lessons in particular are a key factor in creating national identity

Question 2

Kumar

Answer 2

• unlike Scot’s, Welsh and Irish, English find it difficult to say who they are and that English nationality is elusive
• question to expand Britishness may have diluted Englishness as long history of the English as imperial people has developed sense of missionary nationalism

Question 3

Hall

Answer 3

• countries may display three reactions to globalisation
• homogenisation, cultural hybridity and cultural resistance