Formation of a Structured Ethnic Organization:- Ethnic groups try to develop their ethnic organization in the form of ethnic political party. An ethnic party is patent to represent itself for the promotions of the cause. The party mobilises the in-group and exclude the ethnic outsiders (Chandra, 2004). The World’s most acute and lengthy ethnic in counters involve the support of structured ethnic organizations. In Burundi, Tutsi and Hutu tribes, each organized their own ethnic party. This is not the only example in the world, different states in different regions have created their political parties and pressure groups on ethnic lines. Nigeria, Malaysia, Fiji and India, and Pakistan are the significant examples, where each of the major ethnic …show more content…
The ethnic narrative is also vital to the study of ethnic politics. It often addresses the subtle and affective psychic identity needs of an ethnic group. For concerted realization or commemoration, ethnic narratives are sometimes constructed or invented by ethnic intellectuals. These narratives could be based on the ideology, language, symbols or historical myths. Their fervour towards specific narrative often acquit and legitimate their activities. In the Republic of Georgia, the conflict between Georgians and Abkhazians was basically lingual but latter turned into political. Serbian and Croations also struggled for their linguistic identity. In India, Hindutva persists the superiority of Hindu cultural traditions. In these cases, the lingual, religious, and regional rhetoric was revived by the specific political parties. Ethnic narratives, whether invented or ascribed, through generations are at the heart of ethnicity. Ethnic account succour to achieve specific objectives, constitute powerful tools to re-evaluate their historical basis. Through ethnic narratives the ethnically designed objectives attain justification. Mobilization of Ethnic …show more content…
The conflict between Palestinian and Jewish is exclusively political. Both are claiming their absolute right on the territory. The Beijing’s claim over Tibet for political and military control, Serbian and Albanian’s claim over Kosovo and future of Kurdish minority in Iraq are vibrant example of political demand. A part from the importance of political demand and their persuasion most of the researchers and scholars of ethnicity are agreed that the root cause of ethnic conflict is economic (Williams, 2004, pp.75-76).Bates (1974) clearly pointed out that ethnic groups and other rational agents always has conflict over scarce resources (p.14) It becomes a logical base of conflict in many societies. Different ethniescon front with each other and faced off
Consider the representation of racial and/or national identities in the work of at least two writers studied in this module. This essay will consider the representation of Othello as a black male in Shakespeare’s play‘Othello’. Othello’s racial identity is not explicitly confirmed within the play, and in contemporary society there is still racial ambiguityregarding Othello’s race. For the purposes of this essay, Othello will be represented as a black man due to textual evidence that supports this view. This essay will also consider the racial representation of the little black boy in William Blake’s poem of the same name ‘The Little Black Boy’.
This essay argues that states that are ethnically and culturally similar are more likely to engage in conflicts over
The ideologies of a collective group play an underlying role that affects how an individual approaches a situation. In other words, memory and intertextual identity are not only sources to remember history by, but also factors that create and shape
In the Scholarly Article Consolidated Ethnic Enclaves by Brian J. Godfrey, it explains how the urban cultural landscape reflects how an ethnic group becomes the dominant force in an area in many was such as the demographic, political and economic terms. Examples of the change of an urban cultural landscape includes businesses catering to the dominant ethnic group, services/activities such as religious ceremonies being done in the ethnic groups native language, and public spaces/landmarks being named or done in honor of something important to the dominant group. The article explains how an urban ethnic landscape becomes a source of unity and ethnic identity by creating their own ethnic enclave. Table 3.1 provides population data such as total
Sunaina Maira of Harvard University addresses a recurring issue within the dance floor among the second-generation Indian American community throughout her paper, Identity Dub: The Paradoxes of an Indian American Youth Subculture (New York Mix). She traces a wide variety of subjects, one of them being regionalism leading to violence. In this section, she addresses the social division between the South Asian communities that occur at social events. Another one of the subjects she includes in her paper discusses are gender roles within the Indian community.
“There are some facts and perhaps some fantasies that change with our own perceptions and interests” (MacLeod 20). To most people, their history helps define them as a person. Often times, we have a skewed perception of our own history. A huge part of Alexander MacDonald’s identity is centric to being a part of clan Chalum Ruidah.
After some time, Israel had expanded its nation to control what is now about 78% of historic Palestine making it clear to Palestinians that they are in control. Soon, Israel established walls to separate the Palestinians out, and also enforced laws to further establish their jewish state. These laws offered fewer rights to non-jews to prove even more, how much power they truly had. There weren’t only a lot of fights in the past, but even today, there are daily fights and protests. These fights usually all have the same story behind them.
The ideas of nationalism, ethnicity, and identity had to be redefined with the space that they created for themselves in the shadows that followed them; they found a diaspora for themselves as those
Contrary to the expectations of many individuals in the United States, race and ethnicity are not the same. Although both race and ethnicity are connected in the fact that both are socially constructed in modern times, race and ethnicity did not originate under similar circumstances. Race is more concrete and not dynamic, ultimately causing one’s race to be solidified in an individual’s early stages of development in society. Race was originally created in order to oppress certain individual’s in society and allow one group of individuals to be seen as superior and other groups as inferior, thereby proliferating oppression and establishment of distinctions between the in-group and the out-group. Race was not created as a way to understand the
Nationalism has too often been dismissed as an irrational creed due to its association with disastrous results over the decades. But undeniably, it is a dominating force in contemporary international politics. It is important to understand nationalism if we want to understand global political developments. Many books have been written on this subject, but David Miller’s On Nationality stands out. This book takes on a distinctive approach to the study of nationalism, rendering it one of a kind in this field.
Introduction The concept of identity has been a notion of significant interest not just to sociologists and psychologists, but also to individuals found in a social context of perpetually trying to define themselves. Often times, identities are given to individuals based on their social status within a certain community, after the assessment of predominant characteristics that said individual has. However, within the context of an ethnicity, the concept identity is most probably applied to all members of the ethnical group, and not just one individual. When there is one identity designated for the entire group, often times the factor of “individuality” loses its significance, especially when referring to the relationship between the ethnic
Ben Gurion states the essential problem in Israel/Palestine: “we and they want the same thing: We both want Palestine. And that is the fundamental conflict.” (Shlaim, 2001, p. 18) For both Israelis and Palestinians it is nationalist conflict, there is a clear reason in the action of both parties, a territorially secure state. Yet, both Israel and Hamas seem to accept that negotiation is the eventual end through which to meet their nationalist ends (Hroub, 2006; Shlaim, 2001).
“Conflict is a struggle over values and claims to scarce status, power, and resources, in which the aims of the opponents are to neutralize, injure, or eliminate the rivals”. (L. Coser,
People are living in the era of globalization. Every year, there is an increase in the number of immigrants and emigrants to foreign countries with the purpose of living and studying. As a result, cross-culture communication takes place in many nations. Obviously, no one can learn everything about all cultures and not any culture is completely similar. This inevitably entails culture conflict.
The loss of power experienced by Serbia endowed Serbian nationalism with an increasingly aggressive character. Essentially, ethnic nationalism is very much the protagonist of this war. When analyzed from a state level, the war in Yugoslavia is the by-product of the effect of negative integration caused by ethnic nationalism. Ethnic nationalism is defined as “: A form of nationalism that emphasizes the organic and usually ethnic unity of the nation and aims to protect or strengthen its national ‘spirit’ and cultural sameness.” This variant of nationalism is deeply engraved in the ethnic unity of a people; its homogenizing and supremacist character ultimately breeds a xenophobic attitude.