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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Namen prispevka je predstaviti koncept ustavne identitete in njegovo vlogo v ustavnih sporih. Kljub nejasnostim, povezanim s tem pojmom, je mogoče na podlagi sodne prakse nacionalnih ustavnih sodišč ...in Sodišča EU vzpostaviti vsaj splošni okvir vsebine in funkcije nacionalne identitete v okviru prava EU. Pokaže se, da kljub navidezni dovzetnosti koncepta nacionalne identitete iz drugega odstavka 4. člena PEU za zlorabe v praksi Sodišča EU obstajajo ustrezne varovalke, ki lahko preprečijo njegovo instrumentalizacijo. Trenutni poskusi, kot so na primer na Madžarskem, da bi koncept zlorabili z namenom izogibanja obveznostim po pravu EU imajo zato zelo malo možnosti za uspeh pred Sodiščem EU.
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