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Содержание слайда: PLS 140 Intro to Comparative Politics
Week 3
Origins of ethnic and
national identities
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Содержание слайда: Ethnicity
Set of institutions that bind people together through a common culture.
Often based on language, religion or other factors.
A social identity, not necessarily political.
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Содержание слайда: National identity
An institution that binds people together through common political aspirations.
A sense of belonging to a Nation.
Often but not always derived from an ethnic identity.
Can create nationalism: a pride in one’s people and the aspiration to have their own political sovereignty.
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Содержание слайда: Citizenship
An individual’s relation to the State.
Mutual responsibilities.
Political and more easily changed.
The basis for patriotism: pride in one’s State and citizenship.
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Содержание слайда: Different approaches to ethnicity in CP
Primordialism focuses on the powerful essence of identity.
Constructivism focuses on the set of circumstances and actors behind the creation of identities.
Instrumentalism focuses on the actors that use identities for material gains.
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Содержание слайда: Primordialism
Ethnic ascriptions are not a matter of choice but of tradition and emotion linked to perceptions of common ancestry.
Belonging based on blood ties.
Actors perceive common interest with those whom they perceive to share their descent.
Ex: Samuel Huntington
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Содержание слайда: Who are you?
Mongols vs Kazakhs
59% claim that you can be a Kazakh child adopted by Mongols, not know it, and still be a Kazakh.
The assumption of the respondents is that children take the biological father’s ethnicity no matter what.
The kid may not know it, but he is still Kazakh. It doesn’t matter’.
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Содержание слайда: How to do you construct an identity?
Invent cultural traditions and deem them ancient symbols of cohesion and identity.
Modernization, and the development of capitalist social relations to consolidate national identities.
Literacy, development of education systems that generate common values and knowledge.
Assign identities to the population.
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Содержание слайда: Role of colonizers in creating identities
GB in India: Constructed the caste system as the dominant mode of identity to render Indian society more legible and manageable, and de-politicize it.
Belgians in Congo: Hierarchized ethnicities.
USSR: Creation of titular nationalities for the expansion of socialism.
« Divide and rule. »
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Содержание слайда: Hutus and Tutsis as seen by colonizers
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Содержание слайда: Belgians in Congo
Tutsis seen as a superior group because they were more “white” looking.
Tutsis seen as natural rulers, put into positions of authority and discriminated against Hutus and Twa.
The Hutus (about 85% of the population), were denied higher education, land ownership and positions in government.
Created resentment, led to conflict.
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Содержание слайда: Rwandans of both ethnic groups speak the same language, live in the same places, and are not always physically recognizable by distinctive characteristics.
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Содержание слайда: In the USSR
Development of national identities as a necessary component for the expansion of socialism.
Through censuses and bureaucratic measures.
Raised people’s awareness of their national identities, even if, initially, many people could not easily define their group.
The number of official nationalities fell dramatically from 172 to 60 as the State carried out this project.
Internalization of these identities by the people.
Individual republics broke away in accordance with (and in reaction to) the identities constructed in the Soviet era.
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Содержание слайда: Ethnic groups in the USSR