SOIM-UB 1 Lecture 6: Nationality

• School: New York University
• Department: Social Impact
• Course: SOIM-UB 1
• Professor: Social Studies

Document Summary

Nationality is identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there. Nationalism is loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality. A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality. Have by far one dominate ethnicity/nationality 1 country, 1 ethnicity. The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves. Quebec (province in canada) early 1980s strong french. Multi-ethnic state state that contains more than one ethnicity. Don"t necessarily try to appeal to every ethnicity sometimes happy, sometimes not. Belgium = (dutch = flemish = north + french = walloons = south) Multi-national state state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self- determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities. Try to appeal to every nationality/ethnicity (by giving them jobs) get along just fine.