National Identity

Nationalism 2.0

The Morningside Post | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Transnational Movements, Nationalism 2.0, Free Tibet, National Identity, Nationhood, Nation Brands, Occupy Wall Street, Save Darfur, World News

We are defined and united less by the national identities we are born into than by the transnational identities in which we choose to believe. We are becoming advocates rather than patriots. Our fight is increasingly for cause before country.

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Liberation Through Assimilation: Burqa Ban Comes To Canada

Sonny Singh | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: French Turban Ban, Religious Freedom, Ethnocentrism, Islamophobia, Burqa, National Identity, Sikhism, Canada Burqa Ban, Jason Kenney, Niqab Ban, French Burqa Ban, Sikhs and Muslims, Religious Garb, Racism, Niqab, Burqa Ban, Assimilation, Islam, Religion News

This isn't about whether we think wearing burqas or niqabs is a good idea or not. The issue is whether a government should be able to impose its notion of national identity on its citizens

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Metaphors Made Real: On the Power of National Symbols

Jake Townsend | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: National Identity, Palestine, Palestinian Statehood, National-Symbols, Unesco, Propaganda, Nation Branding, National Symbols, World News

If ever there was a question regarding the power and importance of national symbols, the recent acceptance of Palestine into UNESCO may put them to rest.

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Identity Ecosystem: Big Brother Logs On

John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: National Identity, Google, Department of Veterans Affairs, Heartland Payment Systems, Anonymous, Aaron Barr, Identity Ecosystem, Howard Schmidt, Facebook, Hbgary, Technology News

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons ...

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America's Dirty Little Secret

David Macaray | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: National Identity, Social-Economic Conflict, Oxford University, Class Warfare, Perceptions of the Rich, Rich-vs-Poor, Cadillac, Politics News

The notion of social-economic conflict suggests something vaguely ideological -- something unpleasantly Marxian and subversive. In short, we regard "class warfare" as un-American.

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Country: Know Thyself

Jake Townsend | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Darfur, National Identity, Mogadishu, Nation Branding, Somalia, Development Assistance, Public Diplomacy, Humanitarian Aid, South Sudan, Juba, World News

National identity provides foundational strength for a country, for it defines that unique metaphoric construct for collective belief in the nation not only as a physical place, but as a collectively held idea.

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Black History Meditation: Remembering The Presence Of Our Ancestors

Albert Raboteau | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Identity, Slave Trade, American History, Lynching, Remembrance, Slavery, Black History, Racism, Race, African Americans, Diversity, Black History Month, Religion News

Our nation, constituted by diverse ethnic, racial, and religious groups achieves a unified identity, not only through a set of shared principles articulated in civic institutions, but through memory.

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Rabbis' Letter Challenging Israeli Democracy

Yermi Brenner | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Muslims, Jews, Democracy, Arabs, Israel, Rabbis' Letter, National Identity, Multicultural Reality, Religion News

The struggle to maintain a unique national identity without compromising the minority's democratic rights is one that not only Israel faces.

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The West Bank Meets Dixie

Mira Sucharov | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Identity, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, National Trauma, Israeli Settlements, Songs, The Civil War, West Bank, The Band, World News

If and when the West Bank settlers are forced to relocate, there will no doubt be a painful rift in Israeli society. One thing that may help ease the transition is a good song.

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Black, White and Other... Worldwide

Marcia Dawkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Identity, Mixed Race, Multiracial, Racial Identity, Race, Ethnicity, Interracial Relationships, London-United Kingdom, World News

Even though the 21st century is seeing an exponential increase in reports of multiracial ancestry worldwide, exactly what makes a person multiracial remains a puzzling concept.

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Mon General McChrystal

Michael Vlahos | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Identity, Napoleon, Battle, Dien Bien Phu, War, Stanley McChrystal, Afghanistan, Napoleon III, Politics News

America, it seems, is coming to inhabit the puzzle that was once the lonely outpost of the French Empire. We are now the ageing Grand Nation. We have also been in losing mode since 1968.

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Walt Whitman and the Immigration Debate

Claudio Ivan Remeseira | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hispanic, National Identity, Immigration, Hispanics, Walt Whitman, Illegal Immigrants, Books News

We don't know exactly what Walt Whitman would have said about SB 1070, but about the supposed encroachment on American identity by Hispanics, his thoughts were clear.

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Why We Must Put an End to the Debate Over National Identity

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Identity, Immigration, Claude-Levi-Strauss, European Immigration, French National Identity, World News

If Claude Levi-Strauss left us a lesson, it was simply that the word "identity" applies to subjects, not to communities; it can be used in the plural, never in the singular.

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Bono Defends Obama's Nobel Prize

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Identity, Bono, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama, America, Impact News

A few years ago, I accepted a Golden Globe award by barking out an expletive. One imagines President Obama did the same when he heard about his Nobel...

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Health Care Reform as a Backdoor National ID

J. Bradley Jansen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Identity, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Obama Health Care, Real-Id-Act, Politics News

As I type this, the US House and Senate have both passed health care reform bills. While not an expert on the health care debate, I think there are g...

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The UAE Is One Nation ... It's Time Our Passports Said So

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Identity, Passport, Uae, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Sheikh Zayed, Emirate, World News

The UAE's efforts to promote national identity are being compromised by our distribution of national identity documents that blatantly discriminate between citizens.

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He Was our Washington and our Lincoln, Rolled Into One

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Identity, Bu Khalifa, Sheikh Zayed, United Arab Emirates, Uae, World News

Many non-Emiratis will not understand what goes through Emirati hearts, minds and veins when Sheikh Zayed's name is mentioned. He has become a revered figure.

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