POL 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Quebec Sovereignty Movement, Canadian Identity
31 Oct 2016
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Group of people that has a common identity: race, language, religion. Leads to ideology of nationalism: nationalism feel like you belong, commonality. Nationalism about people, how they think and identify: linked to desire for sovereignty (freedom, e. g. Very multicultural country different religious groups, ethnic. Buy into (cid:498)the american dream(cid:499), political symbols, the. Yet, they have this strong sense of american nationalism. They believe their political system to be the best compared to: e. g. People identify with their ethnicity (more dangerous of the two) Identification is with political symbols, ideas, values other political systems. Believe that they are fighting for american freedom, the constitution. The american flag, national anthem is a very powerful symbol. Democracy (cid:498)demos(cid:499) (cid:523)greek word(cid:524) which means freedom. Everyone has a say in a decision. Alternative to democracy are: government where one person is in charge such as king. Democracy as an idea has been around for about 2000 years.
