Essays on Nationalism

Theodore Roosevelt’s speech “National Duties” calls for nationalism and unity, as it says that each individual must work hard and that individuals must work together. Furthermore, it works to motivate our nation by using two ideas – what a nation may leave behind and how...

Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat is a Kenyan novel written in English, a language traditionally associated with colonialism and oppression in Africa. Despite the fact that the novel is written in English, Ngugi still uses language to speak to the novel’s theme of...

Sovereignty is a blessing of Almighty Allah to humankind; freedom by all means either refers to human beings or to other creatures does hold its magnitude in all aspects. It has widely been manifested by the human chronology that human beings have ever been seeking...

The rise of Afrikaner nationalism was incumbent on Afrikaners’ attitudes towards, reactions to and engrained social identity of class. Class was significant to Afrikaner nationalism both internally, in reference to class structure within the Afrikaner culture, and externally, in relation to Afrikaners in the wider...

A fundamental question that is asked is ‘what defines national identity’? Is it the way people speak? The way they move? Or is it what makes the country stand out? The Oxford Dictionary defines nationalism as ‘Identification with one’s own nation and support for its...

Upwards of about thirty million Kurds live as embattled ethnic minorities who endure varying degrees of political, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural discrimination in a geographic space that encompasses Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria. The territories claimed in the aforementioned countries are referred by the Kurdish...

World War 1 was a deadly, and devastating event that occured in 1914-1918. However, how did such a horrible war even begin? There are many factors that lead to The Great War, but nationalism is the main cause of them all. Nationalism is an extreme...

June 26, 1963, post WWII, a time were the United States and the Soviet Union were the world’s superpowers. The two powers fought a war of different government and economic ideologies known as the Cold War. During the time of the speech, Germany was a...

The terms “national”, “nationalism” and “nation-state” came into vogue in Europe after the Westphalian Peace Treaties in the 17th century. But European concept of national and nationalism had three major characteristics. First, it was never inclusive of the entire population even within the territory of...

There were 4 main causes of World War One they were Militarism, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Alliances. Militarism is when the government will maintain a strong military capability and will be aggressive to defend from attackers. Nationalism is when people of a country will stay strong...

American Republicanism and Nationalism in Colonial Times Prior to the outright onset of the American Revolution, many theories and ideals surrounding political philosophy began to emerge, focused on presenting new ideas of republicanism in government, as well as ushering in a newfound wave of nationalism....

In Satrapi’s graphic memoir Persepolis: A Story of a Childhood, there is a constant theme of exploitation of heroic concepts to legitimize political movements. The dissenters of the Shah used martyrdom, even exploiting a man who had died of cancer, claiming he was a political...

The rise of nationalism in India is the result of a series of events. In India, However, the sense of nationalism emerged only when the sense of collective belongingness developed among the Indian people employed as Soldiers in British Indian Army. During the late 18th...

The report gives the idea of how the nationalism and the protectionism can affect the positive and negative well being of the country. This happened post the financial crisis of 2008 in USA. The report gives brief idea about the advent of Global financial crisis...

Nationalism was first used in print in 1789 by the anti-Jacobin French priest Augustin Barruel and since then there has been no term as widely and intensely debated in the various discourses as ‘nationalism’ right from the days of Hegel, Mazzini and Renan down to...

Causes for the rise of extremists or militant nationalism are very much the same as those responsible for the rise of nationalism in India. Leaders like – Tilak, Ashwini Kumar Dutt etc had been active to propagate militant nationalism since the beginning. The leadership of...

Communism and Nationalism had both played a major role in weakening the ideologies of people’s thoughts, which ultimately significantly changed peoples behaviors. Due to the development of nationalism this resulted in the enlightenment, which developed the changed from an agricultural to an industrial society to...