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Challenges From National/Identity Movements

Nationalist and identity movements seek to promote and uphold a shared national or group identity. Nationalist movements aim to maintain autonomy for a group defined as a nation, based on a shared identity, culture or politics. Identity movements promote the acceptability of individual characteristics like race, gender or sexuality as a basis for self-identification and group belonging. Challenges to national identity include disagreements over its definition, as well as movements that span or conflict with state boundaries, like Scottish nationalism, Kurdish identity, or transnational fundamentalist groups.

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Challenges From National/Identity Movements

Nationalist and identity movements seek to promote and uphold a shared national or group identity. Nationalist movements aim to maintain autonomy for a group defined as a nation, based on a shared identity, culture or politics. Identity movements promote the acceptability of individual characteristics like race, gender or sexuality as a basis for self-identification and group belonging. Challenges to national identity include disagreements over its definition, as well as movements that span or conflict with state boundaries, like Scottish nationalism, Kurdish identity, or transnational fundamentalist groups.

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NATIONAL/IDENTITY
MOVEMENTS
Nationalist Movements
A nationalist movement is a social and
political movement for obtaining and
maintaining national identity and autonomy
among a group of people that some of its
members consider a nation. The underlying
principle of its motivating ideology,
nationalism, is to uphold national interest or
national identity as the primary basis on which
political decisions are made.
Identity Movements
Identity movements seek to enhance the
acceptability of certain individual characteristics
(color, sex, sexual preference) as definitions of which
people are. Identities are composed of our
arrangements of many characteristics we share with
others in such a way that we isolate certain ones as a
basis for how we self-identify. Identity movements
promote the acceptability of characteristics shared by
a portion of the population as a way to self-identify.
National Identity
-is a person's identity or sense of belonging to
one state or to one nation. It is the sense of a nation
as a cohesive whole, as represented by distinctive
traditions, culture, language and politics. National
identity may refer to the subjective feeling one shares
with a group of people about a nation, regardless of
one's legal citizenship status. National identity is
viewed in psychological terms as "an awareness of
difference", a "feeling and recognition of 'we' and
'they'".
Challenges for National Identity
In the context of culture and nationalism, scholars
have difficulty agreeing on what national identity stands for.
Such divergence on its various aspects saw the emergence of
a number of theories. The concept of a nation is a recent
creation: the First World War gave birth to the League of
Nations, and the Second World War to the United Nations
Organization. Since then, this concept has attained
worldwide recognition as the only legitimate basis for the
state. Since then, this concept has attained worldwide
recognition as the only legitimate basis for the state. The fact
that nations consist of people who identify themselves as
different from other individuals makes states nationally
homogeneous.
The next challenges are part of a national identity or
movement. It is important to know that a nation has cultural
identity that people attached to, while a state Is a definite
entity due to its specific boundaries. However, different
people with different identities can live I different states. For
example, the Kurds reside in several different countries
including Iraq, Iran, and Turkey. The Catalans live primarily
in Spain but we can also find some of them in France.
Scottish nationalism is another example that challenges the
traditional notions of state sovereignty. In 2014, Great Britain
had a vote in Scotland to decide whether Scotland was going
to become its own autonomous state apart form Great
Britain. They voted against it but Scotland has a significant
degree of a autonomy now as compared to more than two
decades years ago.
Global movements such as the
Al-Qaeda and ISIS, are another
example of national or identity
movements. In this case, they are
structured around the
fundamentalist version of Islam.

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