National identity

Adoption of the boundaries and unities created by the imperial power as the sacred space of the new national identity, within which all indigenous people should bury their differences. 

Support for economic self-sufficiency, a national language and national education, as keys to creating prosperity for the new national identity. 

One of the greatest benefits of the formation of Malaysia in 1963 was that it at last created a neutral and artificial name for the country distinct from that of any ethnie. It thereby could in principle, like Indonesia and the Philippines but unlike Thailand, Burma and Vietnam, emphasise the national identity without necessarily marginalising minorities. But there were still profound tensions between the concepts of core ethnie and of neutral citizenship. Lee Kuan Yew s Singapore was expelled from the new country after less than two years because his vigorous campaign for a civic or territorial nationalism— Malaysian Malaysia the assertion that We are here as of right —was considered by Alliance leaders as certain to lead to violent conflict with Malay ethno-nationalism (Mahathir 1970 122). 

A titah (order) of the king in 1984 already referred to the concept of Melayu Islam Beraja (MIB Malay, Muslim, Monarchy), and it has been particularly emphasised since 1990. In that year the Academy of Brunei Studies was established at the University, and undertook responsibility for teaching the obligatory undergraduate course in MIB. MIB has subsequently been repeatedly enunciated as part of the official philosophy of the state, around which a national identity in the fashion of Anderson s official nationalism might be built. 

Steedly, Mary 1996. The Importance of Proper Names Language and National Identity in Colonial Karoland , American Ethnologist, 23 447-75. 

Gadolin added to the university s reputation, and when offered a chair at the university of Gottingen in Germany, he declined. Gadolin took part in the collective life of his motherland. Johan Gadolin is part of the Finnish national identity, see also Erbium Gadolinium Lanthanides Minerals Scheele, Carl Yttrium. 

My project in this book is both to provide a detailed ethnographic account of dacha life (dachnaia zhizn ) and to show how this lifestyle is not peripheral to Russian social life but is in fact a central, even ordinary, part of Russians everyday lives at the personal, community, and even national levels. As will become apparent in the chapters that follow, dacha life, and the natural settings and qualities with which it is linked, are both microcosms of and conduits for fundamental issues in today s Russia the politics of national identity and nationalism, the transition to capitalism, projects of social transformation, and the legacies of socialism, among others. 

This Meager Nature Landscape and National Identity in Imperial... 

Schwartz, Katrina Z.S. 2006. Nature and National Identity after Communism Globalizing the Ethnoscape. Pittsburgh, PA University of Pittsburgh Press. 

Lawrence Vale, Architecture, Power, and National Identity (New Haven Yale University Press, 1992), p. 109. 

The postwar European people s car also became a mark of national identity. The small cars of the 1950s had some features in common but they were all distinctive and created for the roads that had to carry them, such as the efficient autobahns of Germany or less developed rural roads of France. Few cars moved across national borders in these years. A number of low-priced bubble cars appeared but many of these were less than stable. 

The emergence of a racially mixed population is transforming the face of the United States. The increasing presence of multiracial people necessitates that we as a nation ask ourselves questions about our identity Who are we How do we see ourselves Who are we in relation to one another . . . Resolving the [national] identity crisis may force us to reexamine our construction of race and the hierarchical social order it supports. (3)... 

One should not be led astray by the rapid oscillation between the mention of difficulties attendant to U.S. national identity supposed here to be... 

In thinking further about the difficulties of this process of failed differentiation between healthy and unhealthy interracial relationships within the discourse of multiracialism, let us consider arguments made in another context by Slavoj Zizek (1997) regarding the desire for a wholesome national identity purged of violent, intolerant nationalism. 

This term is borrowed from Gilroy (1991). He describes it as an understanding of cultures as fixed, mutually impermeable expressions of racial and national identity (61). 

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