A letter to myself to be oped at 50 years of age. First and foremost I would like to commend you on how proud you have made me by achieving your long awaited goal by becoming the first female president of Nigeria. You have kept your promise not to run off to another country. Also, I will like to commend you for being patient and not opening this letter before your 50th birthday. You have certainly grown up and more mature. Although I know that you already know the contents of this letter, I will still go on as I am sure that this old memory of yours needs some refreshment. I also hope you would use this opportunity to check your progress so far in ruling Nigeria. Even though I have a feeling that your ideologies have probably changed, the aim of this paper is to remind you of the ideologies of your 17 year old self and compare them with your current ideologies so as to determine your progress so far in the past 33 years. As a 17 year old, your main ideology was nationalism unlike most of your colleagues who preferred conservatism or liberalism. But that was quite understandable because you were a nationalist at heart despite the situation your country was in at that moment. But seeing as you are the current president, I can certainly say that Nigeria is a better place now. Nationalism, according to Andrew Heywood, is defined as the belief that the nation is the center principle of political organization. As such, it is based on two core assumptions. First humankind is naturally divided into distinct nations, and second, the nation is the most appropriate and perharps only legitimate unit of political rule. One of the main reasons why nationalism was your main ideology is because nationalism not only dealt with just the boundaries between nations, it included the people bound together by similar characteristics such as shared values and traditions, particularly a common language, religion, ethnicity, or history. Nations can be seen as cultural entities. According to A. D. Smith (2010), “nationalism is an ideological movement for attaining and maintaining autonomy, unity and identity for a population for which some of its members to constitute an actual or potential 'nation'” (pg. 9). This brings us to the definition of a nation. A nation according to A. Keywood, is defined as cultural entities, collections of people bound together by shared values and traditions, in particular a common language, religion and history, and usually occupying the same geographical area.
All over the world and in history, countries and nations have expressed pride towards their nations through spirit and have unified together as one. Nationalism is the force behind the unification, strength, and cooperation of these nations. First, nationalism is a powerful force that helps to unite all different people into a single nation. It is also important for nations to use nationalism to claim justified independence from one another. Finally, nationalism can be taken too far if it is used unjustly or incorrectly. Nationalism is important and necessary for beneficial political changes, but can become harmful and unproductive when used for a country’s personal agenda and lust for power.
Nationalism, the spirit or aspirations common to the whole of a nation, an importing factor to many countries due to its importance; The people of their nation and their “ality” makes up the country they choose to be and grow in. Citizens showed their nationalism through national anthems and written passages as Russia has done, which contains the saying that they will never be conquered or overthrown (document five). However, due to the utmost prominence of their patriotism reaching out to other countries, it helped cause the First World War, World War I.
“Nationalism” is defined as “A social and political outlook insisting that the state should embody a national community united by some or all of the following: history, ethnicity, religion, common culture, and language” . Essentially, nationalism is an intense pride for ones’ country caused by a push for national unity. Nationalism was stirred due to the sense of loss in national origin.
Nationalism has a long history although most scholarly research on Nationalism only began in the mid-twentieth century. Some scholars point to the French Revolution of 1789 as the birth of Nationalism. The French Revolution is seen...
Nationalism occurs when a nation wants to unify into one, or is owned by another large empire, they all band together to defeat, and fight for their freedoms. Wanting freedom, and your own culture, ethnic and religious group many nations feel that it’s significant that they have to represent themselves in government. Nationalism often encouraged feelings of hate for the group in control, Father Miguel Hidalgo grew support for a revolution against Spain, and they fought against the Spaniards, they want to recover the lands stolen by them, and kill the enemies of the rebellion (Doc 8)
Nationalism is way of thinking both political and socially to create a community united by: history, ethnicity, religions, common culture, and language. Numerous effects occurred while establishing a Nationalist community, some effects were a long term impact on Nationalism, and other was short term impacts on Nationalism.
“Nationalism is a feeling that people have of being loyal to and proud of their country often with the belief that it is better and more important than other countries, or a desire by a large group of people (such as people who share the same culture, history, language, etc.) to form a separate and independent nation of their own”, (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). Acts of nationalism within the 1930’s and 1940’s were significant contributing factors to the outbreak, and continuation of the Second World War. Nationalism held significant contributions to the war as it altered the purpose, validity, and meaning of the media. Nationalism was highly influential, as it caused more than one nation to want to expand their borders, with the goal of displaying
...powerful forces in binding people together, nationalism is a powerful force capable of inducing people to act collectively, share burdens, and even make sacrifices for the nation’s common good. As a result, it promotes the stability of democracies.
Nationalism a strong ideology that says the interest of one nation is superior to the other, and what holds them together is the belief to form independence in their culture and ethnicity. In the Balkans and Middle East religion is the most important element to establish a nation.
This creates debates about which factors scholars should focus on for any given form of nationalism. Should scholars take a primordialist approach and focus on kinship ties, myths of ancestry, and instinctual loyalty? Or, should scholars take a situationalist approach focus upon changing economic and political factors which influence the rational decisions of individuals? Or, should scholars study nationalism as an ideology and explain the role of the state as an ideological enforcer and the role nationalism plays in securing the insecure masses? In certain cases people may think it is adequate to take all of the separate theories into considerations, mixing primordialist ideas of instinctual loyalty and myths of homeland with constructivist ideas of constructed national identity. Others argue that it is necessary to not combine the three separate approaches but to study each one to attempt to figure out which one can provide the deeper understanding. This means that when analyzing nationalism, the frameworks for nationalism are always being compared and contrasted to figure out which one can offer a better and deeper understanding; alluding to nationalist theories having different utilities in separate situations. However, when discussions of nationalism mix primordialist ideas of instinctual loyalty, situationalist ideas of rational interest and constructivist ideas
Nationalism is the idea that a people who have much in common, such as language, culture and geographic proximity ought to organize in such a way that it creates a stable and enduring state. Nationalism is tied to patriotism, and it is the driving force behind the identity of a culture. Nationalism had many effects in Europe from 1815, The Congress of Vienna and beyond. In the following essay I will describe many of the consequences of nationalism on European identity, as well as some of the conflicts that it created.
We will also keep in mind Eric Hobsbawm's working definition of a nation as any sufficiently large body of people whose members regard themselves as members of a 'nation'; and also that nations as a natural, God-given way of classifying men are a myth while nationalism, which sometimes takes preexisting cultures and turns them into nations, sometimes invents them, and often obliterates preexisting cultures, is a reality.'
A “nation” is defined as a group with a common culture, language, folkways, and values. A “state” refers to a government in control of territory and population. For example, Israel is a state and a nation since it consists mainly of Jews. However, Palestine is a nation because it consists of Arabs with a common culture, but not a State, since the International community does not recognize it as one. Nationalism is the view that a nation and state in a specific area should coincide. It is the view that says that a specific group with a common culture should be allowed to form its own state and thus its own form of government to govern itself. Thus, nationalism is related to every country and so is very important in the study of International relations.
The constitutional framework of the of the Federal government of Nigeria starts off with “We the people of Nigeria, by our representatives here in Parliament assembled, do hereby declare, enact, and give to ourselves the following Constitution”(“The Politics and Administration of Nigerian Government”). The idea of this democracy is powe...