ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Nationstates, Indian Act
2 Jan 2016
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Builds hierarchy in the construction of other . The other can live outside or inside the borders of the nation-state. Immigration is another way in which others are produced. Immigrant others are often constructed in terms of racial/ethnic identities. Race and ethnicity are important features in national identity narratives of who belongs and who doesn"t. Citizenship: you adopt the citizenship of your parent. National identities are also created and reinforced is through educational institutions. Nation-states can only survive if their citizens are integrated and buy into the idea of the nation-state as the legitimate source of authority. The others: persons excluded from the nation-state. Meech lake accord: an attempt to make non-english and non-french speakers marginal by their exclusion from this amendment: by excluding indigenous language, you are excluding the existence of indigenous people. Citizenship: obtained by virtue of being born in the nation-state; immigration. Nation-state: establishes membership rules e. g. three races in canada visible minorities; aboriginal peoples; caucasians.
