CONCEPT MAP

The Nation and Nationalism

An ideology expressed by people who fervently believe that
their nation is superior to all others. These feelings of
superiority are often based on shared ethnicity, language,
religion, culture, or social values. 

NATIONALISM

Devotion to a
nation/Patriotism. Advocacy of support for the
Solidarity
political independence.

NATION

Ethnicity Empire
Involvement

State
Owned, preserved, or maintained Evolution
by the federal government.
 The relationship between a nation (in the ethnic sense) and
a state can be complex. The presence of a state can
encourage ethnogenesis, and a group with a pre-existing
ethnic identity can influence the drawing of territorial
boundaries or argue for political legitimacy.

Nationalism starts with the ethnic

communities demanding their own states

Nation often Nationalism tends

consists of an to promote the
NATION AND NATIONALISM TO THE interests of a
ethnic or
cultural particular nation,
STATE AND NATION-STATE
especially with the
community
aim of gaining and
maintaining the
nation's sovereignty
State nationalism is where a state seeks to build a
over its homeland
collectivity as defined by shared ancestry, language, to create a nation
religion and culture through the process of nation- state.
building.

Nationalism is an idea
According to one definition, "a and movement that
nation state is a sovereign state of holds that the nation
which most of its subjects are should be congruent
united also by factors which with the state.
defined a nation such as language
or common descent." It is a more
precise concept than "country",
since a country does not need to
have a predominant ethnic group.
 The Development and Explanatory Models of the Origins of state and
nation-state.

When people are free

The states that survive to move from one tribe
The formation of are nation states that to the other and
nations is a multi- have a central nation
intermarry, a nation is
generational process that is dominant.
formed over time, until
in which the tribes
the old tribes no longer
merge into one super
mean anything.
tribe.

The nation will not

form if each person
is limited to his tribe.
though a nation
state.

Along came imperialism and

conquered a lot of smaller countries.
This began leading to the formation
of nations. In india, a dozen and a
half kingdoms became 3 countries;
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh.
Many places it failed to form a nation in
such a short time. Without a real nation,
clival strife is inevitable as the tribes
struggle over resources. This is why most
post colonial states fail.