What is the role of national identities in doing antiracism? In social psychology, much research on racism has examined processes and practices of exclusion. Scant research however has examined ...practices of inclusion. In this paper, I examine practices of national majority group members doing antiracism in response to complaints by ethnic minority members about facing racism on Twitter about their national belonging. I examine these instances and responses to these in the Irish context, as in Ireland, being “Irish” can mean both ethnic and national identity. Findings show that respondents’ national identification was central to practices of inclusion, such as that of affirming the Irishness of those facing exclusion. For respondents’ national belonging was oriented to as significant for those complaining about inclusion, for themselves, and for those who were engaging in racist exclusion of ethnic minority members. Together the findings show that while national identities allow for antiracism, these problematically suppress the relevance of race in favor of nations and nationalisms.
Drawing from dual attachment theory, this study utilizes newly released survey data to investigate issues regarding the national identity in Hong Kong and Macau that are governed under the "one ...country, two systems" principle. In both cities, we found a strong affinity for the local identity among the young generations, and a more balanced coexistence of both the local and the Chinese identities for the elder generations; there was a rejection of the Chinese identity for the young generation in Hong Kong. We argue that both civic and cultural elements are influential factors in shaping an individual's identity, and that there is evidence of a complementing dual attachment; however, the complementary relationship becomes incompatible if generational differences are considered, suggesting that the dual attachment framework does not sufficiently address the issue of national identity for the young generation in Hong Kong.
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BFBNIB, DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, SIK, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
A growing body of work has highlighted the importance of political beliefs and attitudes in predicting endorsement and engagement in prosocial behavior. Individuals with right-wing political ...orientation are less likely to behave prosocially than their left-wing counterparts due to high levels of Right-wing authoritarianism (RWA). Here, we aimed to extend prior work by testing how political values relate to COVID-19 discretionary behavioral intentions (i.e., prosocial and non-mandatory behaviors aimed at controlling the spread of the pandemic). Furthermore, we tested whether identification with the national group would influence the relationship between RWA and prosocial behavior. A cross-sectional study conducted on 350 Italian participants showed that right-wing political orientation had a negative effect on COVID-19 discretionary behavioral intentions via RWA. Furthermore, a moderated mediation model revealed that this effect was only significant for participants who are lowly identified with the national group. The results suggest that highlighting group belongingness might effectively motivate more conservative individuals to engage in prosocial behavior.
The purpose of the present study is to explore the impact of ethnic-religious identities on Iraq’s national identity crisis and a solution to overcome that with emphasis on Lucian Pye’s view ...(identity crisis). This research was conducted using descriptive-analytical method and the results showed that the political culture prevailing in Iraq including inhomogeneous context, militarism, tribalism, religious-ethnic intra-national identity and so on have deteriorated national identity crisis, and despite legal mechanisms such as Federalism, … in the new era, reaching a national identity has come to a crisis. In order to overcome the national identity crisis, it seems necessary to pay attention to an indigenous model compatible with Iraqi community that can bring unification between all groups based on creating a unifying and yet pluralist model recognizing diversity and co-existing ethnic groups.
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Victor Pelevin, whose rise to popularity coincided with the fall of the Soviet Union, critiques the notion of national identity via the prism of Zen Buddhism. Pelevin embraces the religion’s ...idea of the volatile self and undertakes the project of spiritually empowering the Russians, by exposing the futility of constructing any national identity. With linguistic, cultural, and historical cross‐references between Japan and Russia, the author creates a dialogical hybridity that exemplifies the Zen Buddhist concept of non‐duality in which the self becomes inseparable from the other. This article analyzes four of Pelevin’s novels—
Chapaev and Pustota
,
The Life of Insects
,
Secret Views of Mount Fuji
, and
iPhuck 10
—and examines how the author incorporates the Zen Buddhist notion of emptiness to reinterpret Russian identity in a spiritually restorative way.
The foreigner of Ukrainian origin (Ukrainian diaspora, autochthonous Ukrainians, Ukrainians with the status of a foreigner of Ukrainian origin, labor and educational migrants, and their family ...members) are an important demographic, intellectual, socio-cultural, and informational resource of the country. The tectonic shifts that have been taking place recently, especially after the start of Russia's war against Ukraine in 2014, lead to significant changes in the process of forming the composition and structure of the foreigners of Ukrainian origin, not only as an ethnic, but also as a national-civic phenomenon. Considering the fact that in the conditions of the full-scale attack of the Russian Federation on Ukraine, millions of Ukrainians were forced to go abroad and integrate into the societies of the host countries, there is a threat of their assimilation, and thus the loss of Ukrainian national identity. The latest trends of a drastic increase in the number of refugees from Ukraine (here we are talking about millions of citizens and stateless persons) and the likely transition of some of them to the category of foreigners of Ukrainian origin require a serious rethinking of the ways and mechanisms of preserving their national identity. It is also important to take into account the correct approach in the combination of ethnic and national-civic in the process of improving state policy regarding foreigners of Ukrainian origin. A deep and systematic rethinking of the main approaches and tasks of interaction with the foreigners of Ukrainian origin and the development of an optimal balance between ethnic and national-civil in the process of preventing the assimilation of the foreigners of Ukrainian origin and preserving their stable connection with Ukraine is necessary. The article analyzes the main factors affecting the formation of Ukrainian identity and processes that can lead to assimilation, and also identifies the latest trends, problems and offers solutions to issues related to the preservation of the national identity of foreigners of Ukrainian origin.
This contribution to the theme of ‘Scotland and the Two Irelands’ focuses, autobiographically, on the possible meanings of home. Outlining the undoubted differences between Scotland and Ireland, the ...Scots and the Irish, it concludes that these differences really do not matter
While the (mis) use of history to fuel particular constructions of the nation is well‐documented in the literature, the ways in which nationhood narratives and national ideologies evolve and ...transform over time are rarely explored. When ruptures – such as state failure or civil war – occur, interpretations of history and nationhood narratives cannot be completely rewritten. Rather, they need to follow up upon previous, established versions, relying on anchoring motives that offer a minimum level of continuity. Relying on a systematic analysis of over forty years of history revisionism in Serbia and Croatia (1974 to 2017), I demonstrate the discursive ways in which nationhood narratives evolved over time and space: from the dismantling of the former common Socialist narrative, replacement with new ethno‐national narratives, the bumpy transformations through the democratic transitions, to the gradual consolidation into the ‘new’ reconstructed nationhood narratives prevailing in the two countries today.
The Israeli National Library of Israel and Ministry of Heritage, recently commissioned a digitization project that would create a central digital repository of Israeli Culture. This sizeable ...contribution to cultural preservation Israel, raises the specter of past exclusions of marginalized communities. Yet an analysis of the project’s appraisal decisions and the descriptions made of its mission by both the Digital National Collection and the Ministry of Heritage, demonstrates that not all communities haunted by ghosts of a traumatic past are treated equally by the Digital National Collection. While some communities, such as non-European Jews were foregrounded to correct some of the past deficiencies, others such as Palestinians remain disenfranchised.
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