POL 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Classical Liberalism, Canadian Identity
18 Dec 2016
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The nation-state : a state in which the population shares a single ethnic culture. Nation : a historical community with its own institutions, occupying a given territory or homeland, and sharing a distinct language and culture. Multination state : a state that contains more than one nation. Polyethnic state : a state that contains many ethic groups. Members of the ethic nation share common ancestry, language, customs and tradition: civic nation - a community based on the common territory in which its members live and are governed. Identi ed within the territory, a com munition of laws & institutions. Identities : individual and group self-understandings of their traits and characteristics: most canadian are proud to be canadian but signi cant disagreement on what that means. Political integration: different ethnic groups and newcomers to canada face signi cant barrier to full political participation. Political socialization: without political participation groups are unlikely to see their interests fully represented in the political system.
