What is a Nation Flashcards
What is a nation?
A large group of people with strong bonds of identity.
Collective identity may be based on: (name 8)
Culture
Race or Ethnicity
Langyage
History
Religion
Geography
Relationship to the Land
Values & Beliefs
What is collective identity?
The way that people define themselves in relation to others and the outside world.
What is a state?
an organized political community acting under a government
What is Sovereignty?
the power to self-govern - the power to control one’s own affairs - and defend oneself and one’s interests.
This included territorial integrity.
What is the difference between state, country, and country?
The nation is the people, the state is the governmental power, and the country is the geographic territory.
What is territorial integrity
What all sovereign states need to have.
This includes defined borders respected by neighbours and the right to defend that territory.
What is a country?
Refers to a place or territory. E.x. Kananaskis country
What is nationalism?
Is an ideology that wants to promote the interests of nationhood. The goal is to gain and maintain self-determination.
Why is self-determination different from sovereignty?
What is a Nation-State?
A sovereign political entity or state is ruled in the name of a community of citizens who identify themselves as a nation.
What is Ethnic nationalism?
Nationalism is based on the belief in inheritance. of culture and identity
thought of as ‘closed’
What is civic nationalism
Is nationalism based on commitment to certain shared values.
thought of as ‘open’ nationalizm
