Nationalism and Indepence?
What are/were the key elements or features of the nationalist vision? Why was there a desire for increased nationalism? How have the people attempted to assert their nationalist vision? General answers would be appreciated, but if you would like to answer using a nation/independent country, please use India, because that is what I am researching on. Thanks!
Do Irish people support Welsh and Scottish nationalism since they are all Celtic nations?
If you assumed that all these nationalisms were all based on some form of anti-English prejudice, in the way you may see when watching the Six Nations, then they would have a reason to unite. However only those with simplistic views of their nation think like that.Culturally, though, other than being English, they have less in common than you think. England is not some kind of Celtic-free land surrounded by Celtic territories. Arguably there’s more “Celtic blood” within England than the rest of the British Isles, although admittedly more “diluted”.Wales, speaking a Brittonic language, has more in common with Cornwall and by extension Brittany in France than either Ireland or Scotland.There was plenty of movement between Scotland and Ireland but not viewed by all in a positive light: the fact that Northern Ireland exists has much to do with the Ulster Scots who moved to Ireland under the auspices of James VI of Scotland (James I of England) and some becoming plantation owners. The same Ulster Scots/Scots-Irish who moved to the Thirteen Colonies in huge numbers and represented a disproportionate number of settlers.
Why does the British media portray Welsh and Scottish nationalist parties as ok but English or British nationalism is derided?
Nobody ever needs to be kicked out of Plaid Cymru for making straightforwardly racist, anti-Semitic or Holocaust-denying remarks.English nationalist parties (which are basically various shades of white nationalist parties) routinely have to clean house when one of their members says something that they're only supposed to mention in private.Basically, there is a difference between separatist nationalism and ethno-nationalism. Polite society (and this includes the media, even if it may not always feel that way) doesn't tolerate ethno-nationalism, for various good reasons that it would take too long to go into here. There is no need for separatist nationalism in England since the English are very much the dominant group in terms of the political agency of the UK.
What is the relationship between nationalism and genocide?
This site may help you. http://www.enotes.com/genocide-encyclope...
What was immigration like before the 1700s?
Long before the colonies were settled, the Spanish and French explorers left evidences of their visits on great expanses of the American wilderness : the Spanish in a wide arc across the southern part of the country, from Florida, where they founded St.Augustine, America's oldest city, in 1565, through Texas and new Mexico, to California; the French, up and down the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys. The first wave of settlement came with the colonists at Jamestown in 1607 and at Plymouth in 1620. It was predominantly English in origin. The colonies welcomed all men, regardless of their origin or birth, so long as they could contribute to the building of the country. The Dutch settled New Amsterdam and explored the Hudson River. The Swedes came to Delaware. Polish, German and Italian craftsmen were eagerly solicited to join the struggling Virginia colonists in Jamestown. The Germans and Swiss opened up the back country in Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia and the Carolinas. French Huguenots took root in New England, New York, South Carolina and Georgia. The Scots and the Irish were in the vanguard that advanced the frontier beyond the Alleghenies. When Britain conquered New Amsterdam in 1664, it offered citizenship to immigrants of eighteen different nationalities. French colonial immigration had two main sources. the Protestant Huguenots came in America in considerable numbers after persecution resumed as the result of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Among the earliest settlers in Pennsylvania were Welsh farmers who came for economic reasons and out of a desire to revive Welsh nationalism. In the years 1683-99, they were augmented by Welsh Quakers who came to escape religious persecution. The pre-Revolutionary Irish immigration is usually referred to as Scotch-Irish, since it consisted largely of Scots who had settled in Ireland during the seventeenth century. In 1683 thirteen German families arrived in Philadelphia. They were the forerunners of a substantial migration from Germany. As early as 1610, craftsmen were brought from Italy by the colony of Virginia to start a glass trade. Later, others came and planted vineyards. Poles, too, were present in pre-Revolutionary America. Originally, they. too, came at the invitation of the Dutch. most of them were farmers. They were also Greeks, Russians and other Slavs, immigrants from Southeastern and Eastern Europe.
Who are the 'British' that British National Party activists say they represent?
The English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish? People in the Celtic countries already have their own successful Nationalist Parties; linked to their own unique Scottish/ Welsh/ N. Irish identity. The English? Most English nationalists care nothing for 'Britishness', and would prefer an English National Party on the same lines as the SNP or Plaid Cymru - a party that celebrates Englishness rather than an artificial 'Britishness'. Recent BNP efforts to claim an indigenous British people (based off of discredited genetics by people like Oppenheimer) have led them to attack the solid history of the Anglo-Saxon migrations - the very bedrock of English national identity, history and culture. As you can imagine this has gone down like a lead balloon amongst English nationalists and Anglo-Saxon enthusiasts. Is this the BNP's plan - to alienate English people from their brand of Britishness? Who are these British that the BNP loves so much? What is the BNP trying to do? In my mind they're as much a threat to the English identity as the Guardian reading multiculturalists are.