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Nationalism

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What is nationalism?

  • Collective Identity

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Types of Nationalism

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Video

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Good Nationalism

  • Diversity
  • Promotes peace within country
  • Enhances teamwork
  • Hope
  • Unites

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  • How are these expressed in society today?

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Olympics

  • National pride and unity
  • All Nationalities within a country come together under one flag

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  • Video

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Bad Nationalism

  • Superiority
  • War
  • Genocide
  • Ultranationalism: zealous nationalism that expresses extremist support for one's nationalist ideals
  • Xenophobia: dislike or fear of people from other countries or of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange

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  • How are these expressed in society today?

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Ethnic Cleansing

    • The attempt to get rid of (through deportation, displacement or even mass killing) members of an unwanted ethnic group in order to establish an ethnically homogenous geographic area.

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    • The rise of extreme nationalist movements during the 20th century led to an unprecedented level of ethnically motivated brutality, including:
      • Turkish massacre of Armenians during World War I
      • Nazi Holocaust's annihilation of some six million European Jews
      • Forced displacement and mass killings carried out in the former Yugoslavia
      • African country of Rwanda during the 1990s.  

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Extra Credit

    • Case Studies: Rwanda

Yugoslavia

Georgia

Nazi Germany

Sudan (Darfur)

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Current Examples of Nationalism in the World

  • Contemporary examples include Irish nationalism (in Northern Ireland), Basque nationalism, Kurdish nationalism and Tibetan nationalism.

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Case Study

  • Spain

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Cosmopolitanism

  • Cosmopolitanism is the ideology that all human ethnic groups belong to a single community based on a shared morality.

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  • A set of loyalties to humanity as a whole
  • A universal humanism that transcends regional particularism
  • Those who know the world and feel at ease anywhere in it

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I AM A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD!