Unit 1

Question 0

International

Answer 0

Between countries or nation states

Question 1

Nation state

Answer 1

A country that has physical borders and a single government

Question 2

Patriotism

Answer 2

Love if country and interest in its well being

Question 3

Ethnic

Answer 3

Racial, cultural, or linguistic characteristics

Question 4

Self determination

Answer 4

The power to control ones affairs

Question 5

Sovereignty

Answer 5

The political authority to control ones affairs

Question 6

Civic nation

Answer 6

A nation created by people who agree to live according to particular values and beliefs expressed as the rule of law

Question 7

Ethnic nationalism

Answer 7

Nationalism founded on shared ethnicity, culture, and language

Question 8

Collective consciousness

Answer 8

An international consciousness or awareness shared by many people

Question 9

Rhetoric

Answer 9

The art of shaping language to influence the thoughts and actions of an audience

Question 10

Contending loyalties

Answer 10

Loyalties that compete. People sometimes need to choose among various loyalties based on their commitment to these loyalties

Question 11

Cultural pluralism

Answer 11

A belief or doctrine that holds that collectives should be encouraged to affirm and promote their unique cultural identity in a diverse society

Question 12

Reasonable accommodation

Answer 12

Legal and constitutional concept that requires Canadian public institutions to adapt to the religions and cultural practices of minorities as long as these practices don’t violate constitutional rights and freedoms

Question 13

Sovereignists

Answer 13

People who support the idea of Quebec becoming an independent nation state that can control its own destiny

Question 14

Federalists

Answer 14

People who support a federal system of government

Question 15

Reconciliation

Answer 15

An act of resolving differences and repairing relationships that enables people to come to terms with past injustices and coexist in peace

Question 16

Royal commission

Answer 16

An independent public inquiry established by governments to examine complicated issues, hear a testimony from people involved and rev commended ways of achieving a resolution

Question 17

Non nationalist loyalty

Answer 17

A loyalty that is not embedded in the idea of a nation. People may be loyal to and identify with family, friends, a region, an idea, a collective or a group, a way of life, and a culture

Question 18

Inflation

Answer 18

A rise in prices accompanied by a drop in the purchasing power of money

Question 19

Alienation

Answer 19

Experience of being left out or being on the outside

Question 20

Segregation

Answer 20

The forced separation of racial groups

Question 21

Eight understandings of nation

Answer 21

Language - québécois 
Ethnicity- racial cultural or linguistic
Culture- aboriginal Canadians 
Religion
Geography 
Relationship to land
Spirituality 
Politics

Question 22

National myths

Ex for Canada

Answer 22

Shared stories and ideas about a nation that may or may not be true
Ex: all hockey players, great white north