Nationalism is ostensibly a term which covers such elements as national consciousness, the expression of national identity and loyalty to the nation - "nation" itself being defined by Timothy Bancroft as: " a group of people identified as sharing any number of perceived or real characteristics - such as common ancestry, language, religion, culture, historical traditions and shared territory - the members of which can identify themselves and others as belonging to the group, united through some form of organisation, most often political." ... The people's national identity is said to...

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Each change that America took was towards finding its identity, which thus leads to the expansion and definition of the term, freedom. ... These political ideologists illustrate how America moved from its chaotic and nave birth to its grasp on some vague sort of identity whereby liberty has been at its closest to being fully defined according to each author. ...

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Does a country create nationalism or does nationalism create a country? These are the main questions rooted in the study of nationalism. First appearing in England and introduced my Protestantism and eventually replaced by ones consciousness and dignity as an individual; nationalism is defined as th...

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Q: The concept of political culture is often used to explain a variety of features in the Irish political system. What, if any, has been the impact of Irish political culture on the political system in contemporary Ireland? Representative democracy is built on the idea that the people of a ...

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In most sports and some wars there are clear winners and losers, but for other events in life the outcomes are uncertain. For many years it has been customary to regard the French Revolution as the decisive turning point of modern European history. In spite of every storm and stress France st...

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In "The Best Laid Plans," by Terry Fallis, political problems and personal identity crises are prominently featured as the main characters struggle to overcome political turmoil in small-town Ontario and Ottawa. ...

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During the late 1700's, two great revolutions occurred, the American Revolution and the French Revolution. These two historical events happened at the same time, but had a great number of differences and very little similarity. When French Revolution occurred, it turned into a very violent and blood...

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