Heiltsuk Nation

According to the article “A World Not Neatly Divided” written by Amartya Sen, the answer to the problem of crudely categorizing people into different civilizations is to form multiple different identities. Sen believes that when a person has multiple identities, it will make a person more clear as who they are. I agree with Sen’s opinion because human beings can easily connect with each other by having identical identities or different identities that fall into a huge identity. Being alone

Identity establishment is something that is necessary for youth as well as adults to acknowledge early on in their life. The recognition of race and culture helps people to know “who they are” and “where they come from.” It is this knowledge that allows them to create a space in the world they live in that provides them with the ability to establish a sense of cultural awareness. You can see this ideal introduced in McLean’s’ (2010) article. McLean states: “digital technology facilitates the compression

Being born into a country creates a sense of connection between person and land. Most often people tend to feel this as pride in their country and that's defined as being patriotic but what if patriotism goes further? This extreme sense of patriotism exists and is known as nationalism. Nationalism is known to cloud the thoughts of many people, including high ranked country officials. Such clouded judgements occurs, that many argue it covers the thoughts of nationalist country officials so often that

Ethno-nationalist terrorist groups rely on the terrorism, which seeks to establish an independent state for ethnic, linguistic, cultural groups. They claim themselves as revolutionary groups, who want to create own ethno centric government. Ethnic terrorism differs from religious and economic causes of terrorism. Ethno-nationalist are more nationalist than religious counterparts, and they emphasize on national identity, community mobilization, group identity, and oppose the idea of terrorism. They

Members of the United Nations Human Rights Council, I am thankful for this opportunity to speak on behalf of the citizens of Haitian descent. But before we begin, I would like every one of you to think for a moment of the country that you belong to. Think for a moment of the country that gives you its citizenship and bestows upon you certain rights. Along with that, think of what it means to belong to a country. What does it mean to proudly carry your country’s passport and acknowledge the fact that

country, aiding in peace missions around the world. But what is Canada’s identity, peacekeeper, or peacemaker? Canada, although widely known as a peacekeeping nation has gradually transitioned into one of peacemaking. Through NATO missions, the increase of conflict in the world and United Nations, Canada has become more of a peacemaking nation. Canada has remained a loyal member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization also known as NATO, and has partaken in every mission since it was formed on April

First, race and ethnicity are defined as different concepts, the first being biological and the second cultural. The key point to understand both concepts separately are the social labels used by a society, to classify its members biologically and culturally. While race is based on the popular perception of people's physical traits, ethnicity separates them by cultural characteristics. Members of a group share the same language, accent, religion, history, and even national origin. Most of the time

uphold oppression. The new nation created by liberation must still contend with the world orders in which it finds itself,

My ethnicity does not influence my life in many ways. Currently, I have very little knowledge on the history of my ethnicity, which is why it does not influence my life very much. Now I would like to research the history and the ethnicity within my family to know more about where I came from and how my ethnicity can influence me in the future. I would describe my ethnic background as close family members composed of: mostly Germans, a few Scottish and a few Irish and English. I know this because

Subverting the traditional perspective of how ethnicity forms, Barth suggests the opposite of what one would expect; he argues that ethnic identities are based on the social distinctions that result from social interaction. While the common perception is that geographical isolation defines different cultures, Barth argues that it is social interactions within and outside of a negotiated group that strengthens its boundaries. However, these boundaries are far from static; they are constantly being