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Nation

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A collection of people bound together by shared values and traditions, a common language, religion, history. They usually occupy the same geographical area

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Patriotism

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Literally live of Ines fatherland; a psychological attachment to ones nation or country.

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Nation-State

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A sovereign political association within which citizenship and nationality overlap; one nation in a single state.

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Racialism

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Any form of scientific or quasi scientific theory about race, the relationship between races or the history of racial development. It has political implications, it changes the way a government treats a certain race e.g segregation, isolation, genocide

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The General Will

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An idea created by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It is the common collective will of the entire community provided that the members of that community act selflessly.

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Race

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Defined biologically or genetically; it refers to a group of people who are supposedly united by blood or inheritance

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Homogeneous

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Of the same kind of nature; essentially alike e.g. Japan’s population

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Nationalism self-determination

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This is the idea that a people who have a just claim to nationhood should be granted the right to form their own government and to determine for themselves the manner in which they are governed.

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Nationalism

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The belief that the nation is or should be, the central unit of political organisations

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Exclusive

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Exclusive concepts of nationalism stress unity of nations based on ethnicity, race, shared history, language

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Inclusive

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Inclusive concepts of nationalism highlight civic consciousness and patriotic loyalty. Nations can be multi-ethnic and multi-racial etc. It stresses shared values over shared “blood”

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Racism

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The perception that indicate can be meaningfully categorised into ethnic/ biological groups and that there is a hierarchy that is attached to them.

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Jingoism

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Extreme and emotional nationalism, often characterised by an aggressive foreign policy, accompanied by eagerness to wage war.

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Pan-nationalism

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A form of nationalism that aims to bring diaspora (a group of people who are very spread out e.g. Jews) together. It often seeks their particular group as culturally and spiritually superior.