SS20 - S1

• Sovereignty - The political athourity to controll one's own affairs.
• Self-determination - A peoples right to controll their own affairs
• Patriotism: Love of country and an interest in its well-being. A sense of loyalty that may be expressed in many ways.
• State - A much more politically oriented term. Includes people who live in a specifically designated territory, over which a government claims sovereignity.
• Nation - A group of people with similar cultures, tradtions, and languages who inhabit a specific area but do not have the ability to govern themselfs and do not have charecteristics of a nation state.
• Ethnic nationalism- founded on shared ethnicity, culture, and language
• Nation - Develops when a group of people snese that they share something in common and internilize that feeling. The resulting sense of beloning and and acceptence may lead them to identify themselves as a nation.
• State - A politically oriented term which is defined to include a group of people who live in a specifically orientated territory over which a government claims sovereignty.
• Nation-states aka countries or states are considered soveirgn beacuse they are recgonized by other nation -sates as having the right to indpendently govern themselves. They are now recognized as having several nations within them.
• List the undertsandings of nation - Ethnic, cultural, spiritual, religious, political, linguistic, geographic
• Non-national loyalty - loyalties that are not embedded in the idea of nation. 
• Loyalty to your family is an example of a non-national loyalty.
•  The plan of forcing Alberta to sell it at a lower price was known as the National Energy Program (NEP). 
• patriotism — love of one’s country, loyalty to one’s country, and willingness to defend one’s country (usually just the first two but can include the third)
• Many nations come into being because people share the same ethnic — racial, cultural, or linguistic — characteristics. Ethnic can also mean a nations historical orgins (ie the history of the people of said nation.
• Culture — the ways of life that a people share — can also inspire a sense of nation.
• What overall understanding of nationalism is being discussed in this passage?

  Take Tibet, for example. For thousands of years, Tibetans were isolated on the vast Tibetan plateau. As a result, they developed a distinct language and culture, as well as religious beliefs and their own forms

  of government. Answer - geographic
• One group who has an intense relatsionship to land is the story of the Blackfoot people.
• Spiritual ties also connect Jews, Christians, and Muslims to the city of Jerusalem.
• A political understanding of nation includes self-determanation, sovergnity, and sometimes civic nationalism
• When people, no matter what their ethnicity, culture, and language, agree to live according to particular values and beliefs expressed as

  laws, they have created a civic nation.
• What kind of nation is being described below?

  A civic nation

  
• What is the following image descibing?

  Label the following

  A) Ethnic nationalism

  B) Civic nationalism

  C) consitution

  D) time

  E) nation-state

  
• What is the saying of the French revolution?

  Liberty, equality, brotherhood!!
• Historical factors impacting the FR?

  • storming of the Bastile
• people’s collective consciousness — an internal consciousness, or awareness, shared by many —
• Voltaire - A wit who often poked fun at the nobility and the Church.
• The Estates General comprised elected representatives of three separate

  estates, or social groups:

  • First Estate — clergy

  • Second Estate — aristocrats

  • Third Estate — common people
• When the Estates General met in June 1789, Louis XVI’s plan to

  persuade them to approve new taxes backfired. Members of the Third

  Estate, who were mostly lawyers and other members of the bourgeoisie,

  were determined to change the system and create a constitution that set out equal rights for all men. They declared themselves the National Assembly and swore the Tennis Court Oath, saying that they were the only group who represented the nation.
• Trudeau and Chrétien’s proposal, which was called a White Paper, proved to be a turning point for First Nations and other Aboriginal peoples.
• The debate that resulted led to the recognition of Aboriginal and treaty rights in the Canadian Constitution of 1982.
• cultural pluralism — encouraging collectives to affirm and promote their unique cultural identity.
• reasonable accommodation — a legal and constitutional concept that requires Canadian public institutions to adapt to the religious and cultural practices of minorities as long as these practices do not violate other rights and freedoms.
• What is the following image and example of?

  Non-nationalist loyalties

  A) Class loyalty

  B) Regional loyalty

  C) Religous loyalty

  D) Ideological loyalty

  E) Cultural loyalty

  F) Racial or ethnic loyalty
• responsible government - a government that answered to the people rather than to the British-appointed governers. In addition, Lafouaintaine wanted the French culture to be preserved. (Baldwin suppoted this goal)
• Baldwin and LaFoauntaine had a sucsessfull bicultural initiative for their visions of Canada
• The BNA definded two levels of of representative and responsible government. The fedreal managing national affairs and the provincail managing regional affairs. This ensured Qubec would could affairm and oromote their culture and languadges
• Wilfried Laurier (priminister) belived an unsletled West meant an undefended West and so Libreal gov atrrected more settlers
• Sifton (gov minister) held responsibility for Lauriers goal of western immigration
• Pierre T passed the offical languadges act beacuse he belived in a pluralist society