Transcript WHY DO CONFLICTS ARISE AMONG ETHNICITIES?

WHY DO CONFLICTS ARISE AMONG ETHNICITIES?
OBJECTIVE: TO DETERMINE HOW NATIONALITY AND
ETHNICITY CONTRIBUTE TO NATIONALISM AND
ALSO LEAD TO DIVISIONS WITHIN A COUNTRY?
NATIONALITY & ETHNICITY SIMILAR CONCEPTS
SHARE CULTURAL VALUES: VOTING, CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES, PASSPORTS
ELEMENTS OF NATIONALISM & CENTRIPETAL FORCE
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SYMBOLS
SHARED ATTITUDES
COMMON CULTURE
SHARED EMOTIONS
– CENTRIPETAL FORCEUNIFYING ATTITUDE;
DIRECTED TOWARD THE
CENTER; PULLS A
COUNTRY TOGETHER
– BEST WAY TO ACHIEVE
CITIZEN SUPPORT
EMAPHSIZE SHARED
ATTITUDES
LARGEST MULTI-NATIONAL STATE PRIOR TO DISSOLUTION: USSR
SRI LANKA
LEBANON
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60%MUSLIM & 40% CHRISTIAN
CIVIL WAR DUE TO SHIFT IN POWER
FROM CHRISTIAN TO MUSLIM IN 1970’S
CHRISTIANS ETHNICALLY DESCENDED
FROM PHOENICIANS
MUSLIMS ETHNIC ARABS
SO IT’S ETHNIC & RELIGIOUS TO A
DEGREE
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SINHALESE 74%; TAMILS 16%, MOORS
10%
CIVIL WAR B/W SINHALESE & TAMILS
1983-2009 80,000 DEAD
RELIGIOUS/LINGUISTIC AS WELL
BUDDHISTS, INDO-EUROPEAN VS.
HINDUS, DRAVIDIAN BRANCH
MOORS PRACTICE ISLAM BUT SPEAK
TAMIL OR SINHALESE
KURDS: ETHNIC GROUP
WITHOUT A
STATE/COUNTRY
TURKEY, IRAQ, IRAN, SYRIA
CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING
• LAKOTA ON THEIR RESERVATION IN SOUTH DAKOTA IS AN
EXAMPLE OF RACE? ETHNICITY? NATIONALITY?
• ETHNICITIES/NATIONALITIES IN UNITED KINGDOM?
• WHAT CENTRIPETAL FORCE HELD THE USSR TOGETHER?
• CAUSE FOR UNREST IN LEBANON?
• CAUSE FOR CIVIL WAR IN SRI LANKA?
• SELF DETERMINATION: THE IDEA THAT NATIONALITIES HAVE THE
RIGHT TO GOVERN THEMSELVES – KURDS, SIKHS DON’T HAVE THIS
• WHAT’S THE OPPOSITE SITUATION FROM KURDS?
• WHAT’S A NATION STATE? EXAMPLE?
• WHAT WAS THE BASIS FOR SEPARATING THE PAKISTAN’S FROM
INDIA?
• WHAT HAPPENED TO KURDISTAN?