National Identity

Question 1

Anderson

Answer 1

• nation is an imagined community as members will never fully meet their fellow members- national identity is a socially constructed thing

Question 2

Sardar

Answer 2

• the world is in the middle of a global crisis whereby old divides are breaking down: capitalist vs communist and the east vs the west.

Question 3

Biling

Answer 3

• banal nationalism: the set of taken for granted assumptions about culture, norms, values and behaviours

Question 4

Kumar

Answer 4

• unlike the Scots, welsh and Irish the English struggle to say who they are- the English national identity is elusive. The quest to expand britishness has diluted Englishness

Question 5

Dowds and Young

Answer 5

look at the 2 types of nationalism in Britain:

• Exclusive nationalism- British national party seek to promote a British identity. They show hatred to all foreigners.
• Inclusive nationalism- immigrants and ethnic minorities are seen as part of the national community.

Question 6

Stuart Hall

Answer 6

• 3 reactions to global culture: Cultural resistance, Cultural Homogenisation, Cultural Resistance.

Question 7

A.H Halsey

Answer 7

• suggests that Britain has lost it’s distinctiveness: Our lives are becoming much more Americanised