Relationships between states and ethnic groups

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Assignment:

1. What is an ethnic group?

2. States are very different from ethnic groups. Describe three types of relationships between states and ethnic groups, and give an example of each.

3. Outline the main arguments of cultural relativism.

4. Outline the objectivist critique against cultural relativism.

5. What are nations and why do states seek to build them?

6. Describe the major differences between a civic, cultural, and ethnic nation.

7. One definition of nationalism is the desire to enhance the autonomy, unity, and identity of the nation. Elaborate on the nature of these nationalist goals.

8. Describe three arguments that nations are moral communities.

9. Describe three arguments that nations are not moral communities.

10. Describe three political issues over which ethnic groups often contend.

11. Describe two issues related to culture and two issues related to history over which ethnic groups often contend.

Debating Nationalism: The Global Spread of Nations

Answer the questions in FIVE TO SIX (5-6) full sentences:

1. Explain the differences between latent and virulent nationalism.

2. What are nationalist myths and what role do they play?

3. How did the development of the modern state from the pre-modern state affect nations and nationalism?

4. Compare the French, Swiss and Belgium models of nation-building.

5. Compare how the Austro-Hungarian (Habsburg) Empire, Ottoman (Turkish) Empire, and Russian (Romanov) Empire dealt with the challenge of nationalism.

6. Describe the theory and practice of Soviet nation-building.

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