WHY DO CONFLICTS ARISE AMONG ETHNICITIES? OBJECTIVE: TO DETERMINE HOW NATIONALITY AND ETHNICITY CONTRIBUTE TO NATIONALISM AND ALSO LEAD TO DIVISIONS WITHIN A COUNTRY?

NATIONALITY & ETHNICITY SIMILAR CONCEPTS SHARE CULTURAL VALUES: VOTING, CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES, PASSPORTS

ELEMENTS OF NATIONALISM & CENTRIPETAL FORCE SYMBOLS SHARED ATTITUDES COMMON CULTURE SHARED EMOTIONS CENTRIPETAL FORCE-UNIFYING ATTITUDE; DIRECTED TOWARD THE CENTER; PULLS A COUNTRY TOGETHER BEST WAY TO ACHIEVE CITIZEN SUPPORT EMAPHSIZE SHARED ATTITUDES

LARGEST MULTI-NATIONAL STATE PRIOR TO DISSOLUTION: USSR

LEBANON SRI LANKA SINHALESE 74%; TAMILS 16%, MOORS 10% CIVIL WAR B/W SINHALESE & TAMILS 1983-2009 80,000 DEAD RELIGIOUS/LINGUISTIC AS WELL BUDDHISTS, INDO-EUROPEAN VS. HINDUS, DRAVIDIAN BRANCH MOORS PRACTICE ISLAM BUT SPEAK TAMIL OR SINHALESE 60%MUSLIM & 40% CHRISTIAN CIVIL WAR DUE TO SHIFT IN POWER FROM CHRISTIAN TO MUSLIM IN 1970’S CHRISTIANS ETHNICALLY DESCENDED FROM PHOENICIANS MUSLIMS ETHNIC ARABS SO IT’S ETHNIC & RELIGIOUS TO A DEGREE

KURDS: ETHNIC GROUP WITHOUT A STATE/COUNTRY TURKEY, IRAQ, IRAN, SYRIA

CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING LAKOTA ON THEIR RESERVATION IN SOUTH DAKOTA IS AN EXAMPLE OF RACE? ETHNICITY? NATIONALITY? ETHNICITIES/NATIONALITIES IN UNITED KINGDOM? WHAT CENTRIPETAL FORCE HELD THE USSR TOGETHER? CAUSE FOR UNREST IN LEBANON? CAUSE FOR CIVIL WAR IN SRI LANKA? SELF DETERMINATION: THE IDEA THAT NATIONALITIES HAVE THE RIGHT TO GOVERN THEMSELVES – KURDS, SIKHS DON’T HAVE THIS WHAT’S THE OPPOSITE SITUATION FROM KURDS? WHAT’S A NATION STATE? EXAMPLE? WHAT WAS THE BASIS FOR SEPARATING THE PAKISTAN’S FROM INDIA? WHAT HAPPENED TO KURDISTAN?