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A 12 page research paper that examines the topic of American Nationalism. This examination of American history discusses how nationalism evolved, from colonial times to the present and begins by defining "nationalism." Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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is defined and understood. The following examination of American history discusses how nationalism evolved, from colonial times to the present. However, it is helpful to understanding this history to first
consider what is meant by "nationalism" as a term. Historian Michael Ignatieff differentiates between two types of nationalism: civic and ethnic. The United States, as it has a federal
government, subscribes to a philosophy of civic nationalism. Ignatieff points out that "Federalism is...a particular way of sharing political power among different peoples within a state" and it is also
(ethnic) nationalisms political antithesis" (Ignatieff, 1995, p. 146). This is because those people "who believe in federalism hold that different peoples do not need states of their own in order
to enjoy self-determination," as people who share "traditions, geography or common economic space may agree to share a single state" (Ignatieff, 1995, p. 146). As this suggests, ethnic nationalism
is the philosophy that membership in a nation is inherited. This concept defines a "nation" as a group of people who share the same basic inheritance, in terms of
culture, language and religion. Ethnic nationalism, therefore, holds that immigrants can never fully be regarded as citizens. For example, while this cultural paradigm is in the process of changing contemporary
Germany, historically, Turkish families who have lived in Germany for generations are not regarded as German (Ignatieff, 1995). The form of nationalism that applies to the United States is
civic nationalism, which is based on people of diverse ethnic and racial origins, as well as diverse cultural and religious backgrounds, consider their allegiance to the government and the political
paradigms on which the country is founded to be the central criteria for citizenship (Ignatieff, 1995). To sum up, civic nationalism defines citizenship as shared belief in a specific political
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