Chapter One Nationalism

What is Nationalism?

• identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.

• loyalty and devotion to a nation

• collective, shared a sense of belonging of people who identify themselves as a nation

• all of the above

• 1 and 2, but not 3

What is a nation?

• A country that has physical borders and a single government

• A group of people united by common interests

• a territorially bounded sovereign polity, or state, that is ruled in the name of a community of citizens

• an independent country, especially when thought of as consisting of a single large group of people all sharing the same language, traditions, and history

Which of the following is NOT a factor of a nation

• Linguistic

• Relationship to land

• Historical

• Cultural

• All are factors

What is a civic nation?

• a form of nation that accepts all current residents of a nation whatever their race, religion or language

• a nation-state that has a shared economic concept of nation regardless of its citizens race, religion or langiage

• a nation that accepts civil rules of authority by its citizens whatever their race, religion or language

• none of the above

• all of the above

What is sovereignty?

• command to obey nations unquestioningly

• subjecting a country or person to one's control, or subjugation.

• the authority of a state to govern itself or another state.

• a territory subject to a state on which it does not border

• absolute authority in any sphere