1. SS 20 Chapter 1
Nation And identity

2. Nation and Identity Chapter 1 We are dealing with these questions
What are some concepts of nation?
What are some understandings of nation?
How can nation be understood as a civic concept?
How do people express their identity through nation?

3. What are some concepts of nation?
Nation as Us

4. Country and Nation Some terms and ideas to know
“Nation-state” means “country”
“International” means “between countries or nation-states”
“Nationalism” means, among other things, “striving for a country.”
Only countries can be members of the United Nations.

5. Nation as a Collective Concept
Nation as a concept
Nation as a Collective Concept
Nation as a Patriotic Concept
Is dying for one’s country the
highest expression of patriotism?

6. What are some understandings of nation?
Linguistic
Ethnic
Cultural
Religious
Geographic
Political
Spiritual
Relationship to Land

7. HOW CAN NATION BE UNDRSTOOD AS A CIVIC CONCEPT?
Shared Values and Beliefs Expressed in Law
Canada as a Civic Nation
VOICES
“Civic nationalism – of the French, British, and American type – defines the nation not in terms of ethnicity but in terms of willingness to adhere to its civic values.
Allegiance is essentially directed toward the state and
its civic institutions and values.
Ethnic nationalism – of the German and Polish type –
defines the nation in terms of ethnic origins and birth. Allegiance is directed primarily at the nation, at the
traditions, values, and cultures incarnated in a people's history.”
Michael Ignatieff, politician, political scientist, and historian, in
Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism, 1995

8. “civic” is an adjective that refers to citizens.
Civic nation
A nation created by people - no matter what their ethnicity, culture, or language - who agree to live according to according to particular values and beliefs expressed as the rule of law.
The fundamental freedoms set out in
Section 2 of the Canadian Charter
of Rights and Freedoms expresses the
foundational values and beliefs of Canadians.
The Charter forms the first 34 clauses
of Canada’s constitution.
“civic” is an adjective that refers to citizens.

9. racially distinctive”
Racial, cultural, or linguistic characteristics. Many nations come into being people because of a shared collective identity based on ethnic characteristics.
Ethnic
VOICES
Koreans have developed a sense of nation based on shared blood and ancestry….Koreans believe that they all belong to a “unitary nation” (danil minjok),
one that is ethnically
homogenous and
racially distinctive”
Gi-Wook Shin, 2006
The Korean, Japanese,
Somali, and Norwegian
nations, are based
largely on ethnicity.

10. Ethnic nationalism Ethnic – racial, cultural, or linguistic
Nationalism that is founded on shared ethnicity, culture and language. People who share these traits may choose to create a nation-state based on their collective identity.
Ethnic nationalism
Ethnic Nationalism is
different than
Civic Nationalism
In 1871, people in the small German-speaking states, such as
Bavaria, Prussia and Saxony, united to form the nation-state of
Germany.
These people supported the idea of a single German nation-state that would consist of all people of German descent.
Ethnic – racial, cultural, or linguistic

11. “International” means
Between countries or nation-states. Nation-states may cooperate with one another to promote peace and trade, security, health and human rights, and the promotion of endangered peoples and cultures.
“International” means
“between countries
or nation-states.”

12. “ Nation-state” means “country”
A country that has physical borders and a single government. Nation-states may be based on ethnic nationalism and/or civic nationalism.

13. Patriotism
Love of a country and interest in its well being. A sense of loyalty that may be expressed in various ways.
VOICES
“I love America more than any other country in this world: and
exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her
perpetually.”
- James Baldwin, American writer, in Notes of a Native Son, 1955.

14. Self-determination Sovereignty
The power to control ones own affairs. National self- determination is the power of people within a nation-state or nation to make their own decisions about what is in their interest.
Sovereignty
The political authority to control ones own affairs. Sovereignty may be distinguished from, and can sometimes conflict with, self-determination, which is a peoples right to control their own affairs.

15. Sovereignty
The political authority to control ones own affairs. Sovereignty may be distinguished from, and can sometimes conflict with, self-determination, which is a peoples right to control their own affairs.

16. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Found the Turkish Nation
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Found the Turkish Nation

17. HOW DO PEOPLE EXPRESS THEIR IDENTITY THROUGH NATION?
VOICES
[When I am among my own people], they understand me, as I understand them; and this understanding creates within me
a sense of being somebody in the world.”
- Isaiah Berlin, philosopher and historian in “Two Concepts of Liberty, “ 1958
VOICES
“When I’m in Alberta, I’m an Edmontonian or a Calgarian; when
I’m in Ottawa, I’m an Albertan or westerner; but when I’m in
Washington or Singapore or Sydney, I’m Canadian.”
- Preston Manning, founder of the Reform Party, in The Globe and Mail, 2007

18. Expressions of Individual, Collective, and National Identity

19. The Evolution of National Identity
Myths and National Identity
Changing Myths
National Myths and Canadian Identity

20. Think…..Participate…..Research……Communicate
WRITTEN RESPONSE
Think…..Participate…..Research……Communicate
The same person can be, without any contradiction, an American citizen, of Caribbean origin, with African ancestry, a Christian, a liberal, a woman,
a vegetarian, a long-distance runner, a historian, a schoolteacher, a novelist, a feminist, a heterosexual, a believer in gay and lesbian rights, a theatre lover, an environmental activist, a tennis fan, a jazz musician and someone who is deeply committed to the view that there are intelligent beings in outer space with whom it is extremely urgent to talk.”
Amartya Sen , Novel Prize winning economist
ASSIGNMENT
List as many aspects of your identities – individual, collective, and national – as you can. Don’t limit yourself. See if you can create a list as long as the one put together by Sen.