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.