9.Cultural identity in political terms

Ethnicity vs race

 Jane Elliott blue and brown eye experiment

Patriotism vs Nationalism – By Owrell

patriotisn

devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life

best on the world

no force

nationalism

inseparable from the desire for power

to secure more power and more prestige for the nation or other unit

ethnicity

 ethnicity “just a politically correct term” for race

 ethnicity as based on cultural traditions,

race

 An ethnic group that is assumed to have a biological basis is called a race

race based on biology

Imagined Community

Benedict Anderson in his 1983

book Imagined Communities, to analyse nationalism.

nation =socially constructed community, imagined by the people who perceive themselves as part of that group.