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What Is It?

What Is It?. Nationalism emerged as part of the French Revolution It is based on being a part of a Nation-State. Elements of a Nation-State. Nation = a group of people unified by a common culture, ethnicity, values or language Example: Iroquois

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What Is It?

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  1. What Is It? • Nationalism emerged as part of the French Revolution • It is based on being a part of a Nation-State

  2. Elements of a Nation-State • Nation = a group of people unified by a common culture, ethnicity, values or language • Example: Iroquois • State = a political or geographic location where a government is sovereign • Example: USA, France

  3. The Nation-State • Nation-state • shared set of values, morals, culture, language • Living within defined political boundaries • Examples? • Iceland • Hungary • Swaziland • North / South Korea

  4. What Drives Nationalism? • Desire for self determination • People choose own leaders • Desire for freedom from foreign occupation

  5. So What’s the Big Deal? • Radical idea for its time • Threatened change in status quo of Europe • No monarchs unless they were constitutionally limited (self determination idea) • Led to very violent wars • Conservatives fighting to hold onto power • Nationalists fighting to free people to determine their own course

  6. Problems with Nationalism • Moral question: What actions are justifiable when people are fighting to establish their country’s freedom? • Anything goes? • That leads to very brutal, atrocity laden conflicts

  7. Extreme Nationalism • Linking government to extreme nationalism can lead to terrible excesses in the name of “The People” or “The Homeland” or “The Mother Country” • Examples: Fascism, Nazism, Stalinist USSR

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