Nationalism

Imagine you are traveling with 50 people on a bus. The bus trip will take about 8 hours. None of the passengers know one another: They are meeting for the first time. You are one of these passengers. Think of an intervention to create a sense of community among the passengers. In other words, if you were asked to do something to create a sense of community among the passengers, what would you do? Please make sure that this is realistic – that is, think of something you can really do.

a sense of community among 50 strangers cannot be artificially created unless you are conducting a social experiment which requires their prior knowledge and consent.

the reason for this is respect for privacy. we cannot impose communal action – ex. group singing – just because we want to make the trip more fun.

but this much i’m very sure of — those 50 strangers would be acting as one (that is for their common good) if an outside force threatens them. some examples are – one of the passengers gets very sick and started having a seizure; a hijacker gets on the bus; a really bad storm starts to brew, and the like. as you can clearly see, those kinds of events you don’t want to happen to these good people.

a sense of community is a spontaneous reaction and cannot be manipulated or controlled unless you are working with lab rats.

So, lately….well, for a while now, I have felt the lack of inspiration I once had and before, I use to be able to snap back in to the mode. But, now I have found it to be more difficult than I could have ever imagined. What could it possibly be that is making it so hard for me to finally express myself the way I use to in the growing Sims 3 community?

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I am a high school student in my senior year. I remember reading somewhere that there was a community service requirement to graduate high school or to be admitted into a college? Is this true, or am I imagining it?

Some high schools or scholarship programs require it. It helps to have community service on your college application.
Check with your guidance counselor for your high school’s requirements.

BANWA by JONAS BAES is based on Benedict Anderson’s theoretical concept of the ‘imagined community.’ Featured here is the 2007 performance in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam during the festival ‘Contemporary Music, the Avant-Garde and Globalization’ and rendered by music professors, the audience, and traditional musicians from the locality.

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Look at the treatment of the Navy seals and they are combat troops. Can you imagine what would happen if you failed to treat a terrorist like a state dignitary?

Actually all people who sit around on a computer and complain all day can do is imagine.

its just a question….dont imagine i am communal…just to know …be honest…as to me it depends on circumstances.i will not mind if the person from another community is acceptable to me..otherwise i feel bad,honest.

I don’t care at all. (I also don’t get what being "beautiful" has to do with anything, by the way.)

September 9, 2009

Interview with Professor Francesco Crocco.

Francesco Crocco may be an assistant professor of English, but he considers himself as much a historian as a literary scholar.

Most serious research these days is interdisciplinary and could definitely benefit from collaboration between academic fields, he says. The day of reading the text and only the text, divorced from its historical context, is past.

That view is central to Croccos doctoral dissertation, for which he recently received the CUNY Graduate Centers Alumni and Doctoral Faculty Prize for the Most Distinguished Dissertation of the Year. The title: National Eyes: Romantic Poetry and the Rise of British Nationalism. As a recipient of the prize, Crocco has also been granted the Graduate Centers Publication Subvention Award, which is designed to help subsidize the publication of his dissertation.

The emergence of British nationalism
Croccos study analyzes the rise of British nationalism from the first Act of Union in 1707, when Scotland and England joined together to form Great Britain, through the second Act of Union in 1801, which established the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Nationalism is typically thought of something that goes back thousands of years, Crocco says. But in Britains case, it was an invented tradition—an imagined community.

According to Crocco, Great Britain in the 18th century was a hodgepodge of disparate and often mutually hostile social classes, ethnicities and cultures, marked by frequent conflict between the English, Welsh, Scots and Irish. Nonetheless, the idea of a British nationalism took root and flourished, aided and abetted by the Romantic poets—particularly Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Shelley and Byron. What Crocco sought to discover through his dissertation research was how the idea of a British nation state managed to emerge from such a fragmented demographic base.

Just as the work of the Romantic poets themselves helped foster the idea of a unified British nation, so did its later appropriation by what Crocco calls the cultural milieu of British society. One way this is reflected is in the omnipresence of Romantic poetry in English-language grammar books, readers and anthologies and its acceptance by critics, both in the poets day and later on. These poets left a big footprint, Crocco says.

During the period Crocco studied, Britain was often defined in terms of its difference from others, such as the French, the Catholics or the colonial natives, he says. I looked at how the poets of the day grappled with those issues. Coleridge in particular promoted the idea of the British being the new chosen people and Protestantism being the true Christianity. In his poem Fears and Solitude, he even imagines an invasion by the French.

The Road to Utopia
Croccos interest in the intersection of literature and history will again be reflected this fall when he introduces a new course he has designed on Utopian literature.

I taught Utopian literature as a summer course at Lehman College three years ago, he says. Im excited about the prospect of reconfiguring it for a 15-week semester. The course will incorporate appropriate texts and focus on problem solving, with students assigned to design their own utopias—and addressing different societal challenges, such as the environment and class differences, he says

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I’m not talking about anything major but minor things. I mean Obama has huge influence over the black community and he can bring about change just by talking.

Imagine if he said

" I will not ride in a limousine until my people make a limousine "
He could revolutionized and create several black auto industry overnight!

Or if he said

" I will not ride in another airplane untill my people make airplanes"

He could revolutionized and create a black airline company overnight.

Barack Obama turned his back on the black community. his campaign staff were all whites. he ignored the black community during the 2008 campaign.

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Nietzsche wrote A Genealogy Of Morality (GOM) in 1880, a very interesting time. The stranglehold that Calvinist identity politics had on German public morality was beginning to slip. Bismarck had unified Germany under Prussian rule only ten years earlier. The “imaginary community” of the German Nation was being created. Nationalist and Populist politics were destabilizing all of the regimes of Europe that could not harness the New Nationalism to their cause. Nietzsche witnessed an earlier era of identity politics when the newly minted secular identities of class and nation were gaining ground on the Calvinist and Lutheran identities. He despises the protestant morality which he grew up with. He calls it a slave morality which he traces back to the persecution of the early Christians within the Roman Empire. A slave morality is a sort of intense passive aggressive identity. As marginalized people the early christian theology identified with a victim status. It tried to make powerlessness into a virtue and dreamed of vengeance on the Sinful Roman empire. Nietzsche sees the Calvinist Identity as identifying with being vicitimized by the sinful, the powerful and the secular and dreaming of the ultimate vengeance fire and brimstone. In Contemporary California we might say that they “gave their power away” and embraced the role of the victim. Nietzsche finds this Victim Theology in most (all?) of the identity politics of his contemporaries, including christian moralism, anti-semitism, working-class populism, nationalism, socialism, anarchism and feminism. He felt that each of these movements had internalized the original Judeo-Christian victim cult. At the time Nationalism was considered a progressive movement of liberation and modernism. Identifying with one’s nation was a new and modern identity which has started spreading across Europe with Napoleon earlier that century. Those new identities of German, Hungarian, Serbian and Croatian were very fresh and all based on cults of imagined victimization by another group. Hatred towards another group which is perceived to have power over your own “imagined community”, that was and is the basis of Identity Politics.

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