2. Discuss the effect that modernization has had on ethnic identification and ethnic conflict. The effect modernization has had on ethnic identification and ethnic conflict is not a great one. Early modernization theorists‚ who were quite optimistic about the positive effects of literacy‚ urbanization‚ and modern values‚ clearly underestimated the extent to which these factors might mobilize various ethnic groups and set them against each other (Handelman‚ 2011‚ p. 113). Modernization challenged
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with the benefit of doubt that it may be extremely foreign to you‚ is pretty scary. I’m pretty sure that it would make you or anyone else feel extremely unsafe and uncomfortable. But imagine being unaware of the underlying plan to "cleanse" your ethnic group. The Armenian people faced this situation during the time of WWI. Life between the Turks (Armenia’s rival) and the Armenians was very complex. Not all Armenians hated the Turks‚ and not all Turks hated the Armenians. Consequently‚ the
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Ethnic Religion Cleansing/Genocide (Bosnia) In 1991Political upheavals in the Balkans displaced 2.700.000 people by mid-1992 of which over 700.000 of them sought asylum in other European countries.Methods used during the Bosnian ethnic cleansing campaigns were including murder‚ torture‚ extra-judicial executions‚ rape and many other ways sometimes you cant even imagine that something like that can be done to a human being. Since the war stopped in July 1995 things started to get better. People
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Ethnic Conflicts are a very important issue that can affect a whole country/state. Ethnic conflicts within a state belong to identity conflicts that are a type of internal conflicts. Sometimes the term ethnic conflict is used to describe a large range of internal conflicts .Before talking about ethnic conflict‚ it is important to know the meaning of ethnicity. . Ethnic groups usually have collectivity or psychological communities who share a combination of historical experience and valued cultural
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Ethnic Group ( Java Banyumasan : Orang Jawa of Malaysia ) In this essay‚ I write about ethnic group and why we cannot define an ethnic group by their cultural elements such as language‚ religion‚ customs and so on. I write this essay because there is a question about why we cannot define an ethnic group by their culture‚ whereas culture are one elements of an ethnic. There is problem of seeing ethnic groups as cultural groups; “the mere fact that two groups of people are of different culture does
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ETHNIC RELATIONS Prateek Shukla 3/30/05 ETHNIC RELATIONS PAPER "We don’t want you here anymore white principal‚" (Roberts 2) such misanthropical acts and slanders have been committed against thousands of people‚ almost every single day‚ here in the U.S. In fact‚ there have been many volatile arguments on the constitutional
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English 12 Period 3 29 April 2013 Armenian Genocide and The Rape of Nanking There have been far more genocides in our world’s history than there ever should have been. It is astounding to me that our world does not learn from the terrible mistakes others have made‚ and that our world has allowed for so many terrible hate crimes to keep happening. There needs to be concrete actions we can take to keep horrible things like this from happening again. I believe that one of the best ways to do
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“The Armenian Genocide” In 1948‚ the United Nations adopted the Genocide Convention‚ and in doing so defined the term “genocide” as “acts committed with the intent to destroy‚ in whole‚ or in part‚ a national‚ ethical‚ racial‚ or religious group” (Totten and Parsons 4). Indeed by many scholars‚ this is thought to be the case as to what happened to the Armenian population within the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Rouben Paul Adalian‚ author of the critical essay “The Armenian Genocide” published within
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In 1830‚ Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act. The Indian Removal Act was a law that authorized the president to remove southern Indian tribes out of their homes and to travel to the federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands. The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation trail for the Native tribes. The multiple sources regarding the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears help shape the reader’s understanding of the event because you get different perspectives
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