Unionists and the Irish make up the Nationalist. Though the seeds for conflict were sown much earlier‚ violent protests and attacks from both sides broke out in the 1960s‚ perpetuating a cycle of violence that would not be resolved until around 1998. The Troubles depict the constant struggle between different cultural groups for reform and change as well as the necessary rise of political parties to search for peace. The political unrest in Northern Ireland between Nationalists and Unionists initially prompts
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hope to the Nationalist community who had long felt discriminated against. However it was met with some derision from his fellow unionists who had no intention of building bridges. Hope was further raised that he was heralding a change of direction in NI when he proposed the Lemass-O’Neil talks. However‚ his rhetoric was soon seen as empty promises when he appeared to maintain Stormont’s perceived west of the Bann policy with his failure to site NI second university in the Nationalist dominated Derry
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Another example of the political demands and outcomes involved in identity movements can be seen in the modern Hindu Nationalist Movement. This movement‚ which has it roots in the Hindutva Movement of the early 20th century and opposition to British colonialism‚ attempts to redefine the parameters of Indian citizenship from secular terms to religious ones (Pande). Hindu nationalists conceptualize rights to citizenship as inherently religious and genealogical. According to these extremists only those
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Imperialism was the driving force that made people become nationalists. European imperialism caused many countries to begin having nationalist feeling towards their own country. The idea of using nationalist’s feelings to imperialize other countries leaded to the World Wars. Europe conquered many different places during this time to modernize and create a more European world‚ which many countries began to reject. Imperialism is extending the rule or authority of a nation over foreign countries
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Introduction Eritrean nationalism is a very young emotion. It was conceived in the 1940’s following the Italian colonial era‚ founded on the peoplespeople’s shared anti-colonial sentiment. This unifying emotion manifested itself in 1941 to an Eritrean nationalist movement through an anti-colonial coalition. It began with the dream of “a country of one’s own”; one which looked to reverse its people’s history of entrapment‚ isolation‚ and suppression from succeeding colonial powers who encircled and occupied
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periods when strong nationalist feelings fired our people to action and other periods when nationalism seemed to be forgotten. Not only did nationalism as a sentiment have its peaks and valleys‚ nationalism as a political concept has been espoused at one time or another by different sectors of society which projected particular nationalist goals as their own interests and historical circumstances demanded. The ilustrados who led the Propaganda Movement were expressing the nationalist goals of the Filipino
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gain power. What began in 1946 was one of the most bloodied battles in Chinese history. It was a war that would change the course of China and its future. The Chinese Civil war was a war between the Communists (CCP) led by Mao Tse Tung and the Nationalists led by Chiang Kai Shek. The Chinese Civil War finally ended in 1949 after several years of war‚ the Communists had managed to gain control and Chiang had fled to Taiwan. This essay will be focused on analysing the reason for the communist victory
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Abstract: This thesis examines Deepa Mehta’s trilogy—Water‚ Earth‚ Fire—and the trilogy’s exploration and contestation of colonial‚ anti-colonial nationalist‚ and religious ideologies as intersecting with patriarchal norms to enact symbolic and actual violence on the bodies of women. I argue that Mehta’s trilogy foregrounds the ways in which patriarchal nationalism legitimizes violence against women’s bodies and sexualities through different social and cultural practices and discourses which are
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related to each other? You can choose to look at this from a combination of different historical‚ political and/or social perspectives. The Indonesian language had been used as an important symbol of unity during the expansion of the Indonesian nationalist movement. As Indonesia is famous for its great diversity of more than 200 major ethnic groups (Vickers 2005: 1) and 600 languages (Paauw 2009: 1)‚ it was hard for the people of Indonesia to find an element that they all shared as ‘Indonesian’. The
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What was the role of the First World War in Mussolini’s transition from Socialism to Fascism? Mussolini’s controversial transition from his Socialist roots to leader of the Fascist Party has been bewildering to many‚ particularly those who perceive it as a sudden and random change. However‚ many historians‚ such as O’Brien‚ have suggested this transition was not so random; Mussolini’s political shift from the Left to the Right was the result of World War One. Italy’s entry into the war in 1915
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