China Inside Out: Contemporary Chinese Nationalism And TransnationalismAuthor:Pal Nyiri, Joana BreidenbachFormat:PDF 2.3MBPublisher: Central European University Press Number Of Pages: 354 Publication Date: 2005-08-30 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9637326146 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9789637326141 The "war on terror" has generated a scramble for expertise on Islamic or Asian "culture" and revived support for area
"Queer Nationalism" - The movement/dream for a homeland for LGBTQ people. Australian activists declared the Cato Islands the "Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea" in 2004. Organizations such as the Gay and Lesbian Commonwealth Kingdom, Unified Gay Tribe, and Gay Homeland Foundation embrace the idea of a Queer nation state. The premise is that Queers have a right to a safe and national home
The 'secret Garveyism':
By THEA RUTHERFORD, Guardian National Correspondent -
Nassau, Bahamas:
UCLA professor and prominent Caribbean scholar, Robert Hill, introduced an audience on Thursday to a Marcus Garvey that perhaps many of us have never known.
For decades after his death in 1940, the world has been most familiar with the military Garvey, the "Africa for the Africans" Garvey. And peopl
Título: Rethinking Nationalism: State Projects and Community Networks in 19th-Century Ottoman Empire
Autor: Yonca Köksal
Periódico: American Behavioral Scientist, 51, 1498-1515, 2008
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Telegraph article Now faced with the real possibility of going down in history as the myopic political movement that destroyed Britain from within, Labour in Scotland are running scared
concerning the Labour parties problems in Scotland, we all know that they
messed up the devolution process and by turning a deaf ear to the [...]
Apologies to anyone who was looking for a post and found nothing new here for some time. Like the activity of blogging itself, I found taking a break to be rather addictive! Took a few days off, and then a few more. Felt so good, didn’t want to stop (or, rather, I didn’t want to [...]
We all know how Armenian and Azeri journalists tend to use chess to "claim victories" over each other. Here enters Macedonia/FYROM:
At the European Chess Championship in Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Macedonian chess players continued their dominance over our southern neighbour.
International master Vanco...
Gambling has never tempted me. The thought of losing money for the slim chance of winning a greater amount fills me with dread, rather than anticipation.I feel the same way about nationalism, because its effects are also unpredictable. It can lead to stirring music, family picnics and fireworks displays or genocide and mass expulsions — sometimes both.After the United States affirmed Kosovo’s declaration of independence and I saw the Serb hooligans subsequently trashing the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade last month, my first thought was, “Well, at least they’re not attacking defenseless civilians this time.” I then reflected that I have never known nationalism to make anyone kinder, more just or compassionate. Indeed, far more examples exist of nationalism leading to human rights abuse
The Chinese people endured over a hundred years of being treated as a second-rate nation while European nations seized “spheres of influence” in a country whose history had created strong feelings of pride. Recent protests in Tibet were viewed by many Chinese people as an insult to their nation since many regard the struggle for [...]
From The Edinburgh Lectures - March 4, 2008 : Source: Scottish Government " ... The underlying puzzle has always been not why there are so many nation states and distinct ethnic cultures but - why are there so few. In his classic Nations and Nationalism (1983) the social anthropologist Gellner observes that, although no one will ever know exactly, there can't be less than somewhere between six and eight thousand identifiable ethno-linguistic populations scattered round the globe. Why, then, are there less than two hundred or so national states? When he was writing in 1983 there were well under two hundred U.N. representatives, and though this number has grown, forecasts for the later twenty-first century don't usually envisage more than something between two hundre
What I've been wondering for some time is to what extent national borders should coincide with ethnic or religious groups. The lack of a reasonable ethnic division in Africa, for example, has probably caused or exacerbated many conflicts in the post-colonial era. But what would another way of doing it have been?Had the English or French decided to carve up their empires in a reasonably ethnic manner (as Woodrow Wilson generally believed that borders and ethnicities are meant to coincide) that would have left Africa with something like 800 tiny states. Some ethnic groups have 100,000 members. Others have 500. The ability of a state of 100,000 to simply overwhelm the tiny ethnic state might have created more instability. With ratios that skewed, you just need one twentyeth of one perce
Raj Thackeray, formerly of the Shiv Sena, now of the Maharashtra Navnirma Sena, has chosen to criticise Amitabh Bachchan’s interest in Uttar Pradesh,even as he demands that festivals celebrated in North India and Bihar not be celebrated in Maharashtra. This is all of a piece with the Shiv Sena ideology of the 1970s--Maharashtra for the Maharashtrians. However, this kind of provincialism goes against the spirit of Indian nationalism--unlike the US states, the Indian states do not have a separate citizenship. An Indian is an Indian, never mind where he comes from and where he chooses to live and work. Moreover, Thackeray’s statements could lead to bad blood in Mumbai, between its Maharashtrian and non-Maharashtrian population. It seems that both uncle and nephew feel they can only come t
Some People BelieveThat "There Will Always Be War"A ResignationThey Accepted WarAs If It Were A WeatherSystem, UncontrolledHowever, UnlikeWeather, War Is Planned, ControlledAnd CalculatedPeople Agree ToParticipate In It, ToFight And Die In ItThere Will Be No MoreWars When People Decide NotTo Show Up For ThemOur BelligerentNationalism BlindlyTakes Us Straight To WarIt Gives GovernmentA Green Light To DemonizeThe "Other" And ThenState Any Claim AsTo Why We Need To Invade"Bring Democracy"Whoever BushtardSays Is The Enemy, MustBe Right, Right? Right. What?Almost All Wars HaveBeen Fought Over ResourcesOil, Gold, Water, LandAnyone Who ThinksBush Invaded Iraq ForAnything OtherThan Oil Is SorelyIn The Wrong, Denial ByFoolish BelieversHow Many Times DidBushtard Change The Reason ForHis Rape Of IraqBush Is Doing The SameWith The Pre Invasion OfIran, Lies, More LiesWhat The Bush AdminIs Doing Is DistractingCreating ChaosMoving From One BigCatastrophe To The NextConstant DeflectionThey Will Nev
Yeah! Nationalism and racism!We seem to have a lot of those here in Malaysia. Sadly, we have a lot of those in other parts of the world too. :-(Do you really know what nationalism or racism is all about?According to Wikipedia, nationalism is, quote:“Nationalism is a term that refers to a doctrine[1] or political movement[2] that holds that a nation—usually defined in terms of ethnicity or culture—has the right to constitute an independent or autonomous political community based on a shared history and common destiny.[3] Most nationalists believe the borders of the state should be congruent with the borders of the nation.[4] Extreme forms of nationalism, such as those propagated by fascist movements in the twentieth century, hold that nationality is the most important aspect of one's identity and attempt to define the nation in terms of race or genetics.”On racism, Wikipedia defined it as, quote:“According to the Oxford English Dictionary, racism is a belief or ideology that
As my friends and I were taking beer in a street café last night, a promotion girl came and asked us to buy her product(555 cigarette). The girl looked so beautiful and hot.
Being endowed with good looking, my friends could soften a girl's heart from his smiles and sweet voice. Moreover, as a foreign scholars, they outpoint other men in the love affairs.
In the conversations, a question came out "what is your nationality?". "we are Thais", I was really shocked with my friends' answer. Oh my Buddha! Why Thai, not Cambodian? I stayed calm, though. However, some questions aroused in my head as why we needed to answer like that? Is it ashamed to say we are Cambodian? Additionally, we were sitting in a high-class café, but why we had to honer the Thai instead?read more
A growing trend towards nationalism over resources in Russia and even Britain could backfire by cutting expenditure on oil and gas worldwide at a time when demand is likely to rise faster than expected over the next five years, the International Energy Agency warned yesterday.At the same time, Shell signed a strategic agreement with Kremlin-controlled oil company Rosneft, weeks after BP agreed a similar deal with government-owned gas group, Gazprom. Both companies appear to be signalling that they need the influence of local operators in order to be involved in big developments in Russia. The IEA criticised governments of energy-producing countries for using a period of high oil prices - currently $76 per barrel - to tighten their control over production. This comes as the IEA has adjusted its oil demand growth forecast from 2% per year over the next five years to 2.2% on the back of booming consumption in the US and China."It is little wonder that consumers focus on supply diversity,
A growing trend towards nationalism over resources in Russia and even Britain could backfire by cutting expenditure on oil and gas worldwide at a time when demand is likely to rise faster than expected over the next five years, the International Energy Agency warned yesterday.At the same time, Shell signed a strategic agreement with Kremlin-controlled oil company Rosneft, weeks after BP agreed a similar deal with government-owned gas group, Gazprom. Both companies appear to be signalling that they need the influence of local operators in order to be involved in big developments in Russia. The IEA criticised governments of energy-producing countries for using a period of high oil prices - currently $76 per barrel - to tighten their control over production. This comes as the IEA has adjusted its oil demand growth forecast from 2% per year over the next five years to 2.2% on the back of booming consumption in the US and China."It is little wonder that consumers focus on supply diversity,
When you are unmotivated, you seek inspiration, a thought, an action or a path that leads you to the right direction. When you are shown that path, it is upto you to find out when this virtual road ends and where your true path begins. 60 years of Independence for a civilisation that has survived for more than 5 millenia of recorded history is not much. A drop in the ocean. To celebrate the
With their support to the Action Démocratique du Quebec (ADQ), certain Quebeckers are gradually (albeit very slowly) embracing a new kind of nationalism to most Montrealers’ greatest displeasure: a philosophy of Canadian/Quebecker melting pot.Speaking of the ridings that were won by any given political parties, Montreal’s election map still looks like a chessboard shared by the Liberal Party of Quebec (LPQ) and the Parti Québécois (PQ). In this memorable provincial election, the major changes occurred when Mario Dumont’s ADQ, by seizing 41 ridings out of 125, truly gave birth to the Rest of Quebec (ROQ), in opposition to Montreal.Boy, that election showed us how much Montreal is worryingly isolated from the ROQ!Democracy certainly spoke on March 26. Political columnist Don MacPherson shamefully missed the target with his opinion piece published today in The Gazette. According to this hard-line ADQ basher, the day of the election “was a great day for xenophobia in Quebec.”
Michael Medved talks about the sharp differences between Scottish nationalism with its very rich history and the big lie of there ever having been a "palestinian people". It's a column well worth reading in full.
