Nationalism is a phenomenon that goes hand in hand with international relations. Nationalism may be defined as a state of mind in which the individual feels that everyone owes his supreme secular loyalty to the nation-state. Nationalism, translated into world politics, implies the identification of...
The above analogy is described in the article as follows: "keeping close ties to and identifying with their countries of origin" and "foregrounded the continuing complications of building national identity in a young nation raising questions of how to accommodate more forms of multiracialism while retaining existing traditions and values" What the above quote from the article presents is quite true, as reflected in modern Singapore. ...
It would be easy to accept the popular notion that only representative democratic regimes can be legitimate, after all, that is what is familiar to citizens of the modern Western world and humans, being creatures of habit, will often accept the status quo as that which is right. ... Therefore it appears that one condition necessary for democratic legitimacy is a fully competitive process-driven aggregative democracy with perfect information to allow citizens to make a fully informed choice. ...
