A civilization is a cultural entity, defined by common elements like language, religion customs,institutions and it is the highest level to which people can identify themselves to. ... Croatia became converted to Christianity, which was spread in the Slav language as well as in Latin. ... Ignatieff compares this process of awaking awareness with the theory of Hobbes: the state that is suppossed to watch over every citizen, collapses. ... To clarify his point on the emergence of nationalistic feelings, Ignatieff turns to a theory of Freud., called the Narcissism of minor difference. ...

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This is surely one of the most important questions to ponder in macro-political theory. ... Of his most famous writings, Locke's Two Treatises of Civil Government gives us a theory of natural law and natural rights which he used to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate civil governments, and to argue for the legitimacy of revolt against tyrannical governments. ... "Imagine, my dear friend, if you can," Tocqueville wrote back to France, "a society formed of all the nations of the world people having different languages, beliefs, opinions: in a word, a society without roots, w...

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Language, custom, and even their looking, all became the source of the problems. ... The cause of Nazi persecution was originated from the extreme nationalism and new biological-racial theories of social development in the Nazi ideology. ...

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From politics, law, design, fashion, sports, architecture, farming, war, art, language, religion and more. ... I also found this advice very appealing to read, because he backed up his theories with proofs from history. ...

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