Nationality And Identity Flashcards
Media (Sindic)
-Media gives people the opportunity to imagine themselves as members of the same national community-who share the same experiences
Media (Anderson)
-Facilitated by developments in printing and technology leading to mass circulation of newspapers and books
-Created a ‘national’ language
Education
-Teaching of History,English literature,and religion in British schools tends to promote national identity
-emphasis on WW1+WW2 and the monarchy
-OFSTED requirement to teach the British values.
Religion
-Estimated 51% of people in England+Wales identified as Christian
-Anglican church continues to play a central role in royal weddings and remembrance
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Globalisation (Sardar)-‘Globalisation becomes the norm’
-Globalisation becomes the norm
-British people now know more about different cultures and can travel to distant countries,and many even choose to live abroad
Globalisation (Hall)-‘Confused sense of National identity’
Most modern states are culturally diverse and this may lead to a confused sense of national identity
Globalisation (Ballard)-Brasians
-Recognised the development of hybrid Identities in contemporary Britain,such as Brasians
Globalisation (Kennedy & Danks)
-‘Citizens of the world’
-National identity will become less+less important in todays globalised society
-Young people are ‘citizens of the world’
As they can access information+consumer products from all over the world
Three different reactions to Globalisation (Hall)
-Cultural homogenisation
-1.Cultural homogenisation-some societies may find global mass culture swamps their local culture so consequently large parts of the world experience cultural sameness-as (McLuhan) says in ‘Global village’ theory
Three different reactions to Globalisation (Hall)
-Cultural Hybridity
-2.Cultural hybridity-Other societies may combine the best of global culture with aspects of their localised culture
Eg.The Indian film industry Bollywood-combined aspects of Asian culture with the commercial norms of American film industry
Three different reactions to Globalisation (Hall)
-Cultural Resistance
-3.Cultural Resistance-Some cultures may resist the mass culture that globalisation brings with it,as they see globalisation as a threat to tradition
Americanisation (Seabrook)
-These countries are ones which dominate and impose their cultural values ‘Cultural Imperialism’
Marked Prioritisation of Scottishness
(Bond&Rosie)
-Marked prioritisation of Scottishness as opposed to a British identity
-‘Celtic identity has been given political and legal legitimacy’-in third parts in the UK,in the form of a Scottish+Welsh parliament (Condor)
English national identity is elusive (Kumar)
-Unlike the Scott’s,the Welsh and the Irish,the English find it difficult to say who they are,and that ‘English Identity is elusive’
‘Little Englanders’ (Denscombe)
-‘Little Englanders’ are in the rise,with these people critical of multiculturalism,immigration,equal opportunity policies and the supposed failure of ethnic minority groups to conform to British norms
