Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Identity: Cross National and Comparative PerspectivesRussell F. Farnen Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Identity reflects the consequences of rapid change as well as the impact of longstanding social values. Contributors from a number of different countries use a variety of methodological approaches (empirical, quantitative, qualitative, historical, and case study, among others) to analyze important issues. These include anti-Semitism, stereotyping, militarism, authoritarianism, postmodernism, moral development, gender, patriarchy, theory of the state, critical educational theory, Europeanization, and democratic public policy options as related to competing choices among monocultural and multicultural policy options. |
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Page 373 - Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.
Page 220 - No one may be prejudiced or favoured because of his sex, his parentage, his race, his language, his homeland and origin, his faith or his religious or political opinions.
Page 216 - a group numerically inferior to the rest of the population of a state, in a non-dominant position, whose members - being nationals of the state - possess ethnic, religious or linguistic characteristics differing from those of the rest of the population and show, if only implicitly, a sense of solidarity, directed towards preserving their culture, traditions, religion or language".
Page 46 - Nationalism is a state of mind, in which the supreme loyalty of the individual is felt to be due the nation-state.
Page 182 - Just as extreme Shi'ite Muslims hold that Archangel Gabriel made a mistake, delivering the Message to Mohamed when it was intended for Ali, so Marxists basically like to think that the spirit of history or human consciousness made a terrible boob. The awakening message was intended for classes, but by some terrible postal error was delivered to nations. It is now necessary for revolutionary activists to persuade the wrongful recipient to hand over the message, and the zeal it engenders, to the rightful...
Page 197 - Particularity by itself, given free rein in every direction to satisfy its needs, accidental caprices and subjective desires, destroys itself and its substantive concept in this process of gratification. At the same time, the satisfaction of need, necessary and accidental alike, is accidental because it breeds new desires without end, is in thoroughgoing dependence on caprice and external accident, and is held in check by the power of universality.
Page 205 - Arendt's participatory conception, the public sentiment which is encouraged is not reconciliation and harmony, but rather political agency and efficacy, namely, the sense that we have a say in the economic, political, and civic arrangements which define our lives together, and that what one does makes a difference.
Page 216 - A group of citizens of a state, constituting a numerical minority and in a non-dominant position in that state, endowed with ethnic, religious or linguistic characteristics which differ from those of the majority of the population, having a sense of solidarity with one another, motivated, if only implicitly, by a collective will to survive...
Page 201 - ... tend to attribute to themselves what the distribution attributes to them, refusing what they are refused ("That's not for the likes of us"), adjusting their expectations to their chances, defining themselves as the established order defines them, reproducing in their verdict on themselves the verdict the economy pronounces on them, in a word, condemning themselves to what is in any case their lot, ta heautou, as Plato put it, consenting to be what they have to be, "modest", "humble
Page 42 - ... same Washington press conference, Stanovnik spoke out bluntly against resurgent Serbian nationalism, personified by Slobodan Milosevic, the dynamic party chief in Serbia. He charged Milosevic with fanning the flames of ethnic antagonism. Yugoslavia, home of the South Slavs, is an implausible country of six republics, five nationalities, four languages, three religions, two alphabets, and (so the flippant catechism went in his lifetime) one Tito. The "national question" had torn prewar Yugoslavia...