Nationality and identity

Cards (5)

  • Andersons
    Nation is an imagined community.
    Members will never meet all the other members, so it is constructed through symbols.
    National identity is socially constructed through media, education and religion
  • Darcus Howe - White tribe

    He grew up caribbean in a british empire, and can see himself as black and british, but the growth of nationalistic britain is more exclusive and white
  • Stuart hall: responses to globalisation
    • accept global culture
    • be culturally hybrid (both traditional and global)
    • Resist global culture entirely
  • Kumar
    • unlike the welsh scots and irish, the english find it difficult to say who they are as their nationality has become british
  • Sadar
    • the world is in the middle of a global identity crisis where capitalism vs communism has broken down.
    • we must embrace diversity and focus on our common humanity