"National identity" refers to the sense of belonging and connection that individuals feel toward their country. It represents a shared set of characteristics, values, traditions, and beliefs that define a nation and its people. It is what makes people feel like they are a part of a specific country, with a unique culture and heritage that distinguishes them from others.
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The Scottish Conservative party today launched a new campaign against the government's forthcoming
national identity card scheme.
That shaking down has to affect certain basic cultural attitudes about science, philosophy and society, and about faith in
national identity as a substitute for religion.
The report is embarrassing for ministers, who want to avoid public debate
on national identity numbers.
Never include your personal information in your resume; such as your date of birth, marital status, social security or
national identity number.
We can see the same struggle
with national identity and determination carrying all the way through to the present day, even among peoples who had already «discovered» it.
It addresses questions of
how national identity might influence attitudes towards European integration, and how preferences and identities are changing.
In video, photography and other media, she
explores national identity and works from the collective experience to the individual person.
His video work
examines national identity, often specifically with reference to the displacement experienced by the Vietnamese «boat people».
This research considers the
ways national identity translates into support or opposition to democratic or authoritarian forms of government.
We can not say that
national identity suggests that there should be the common set of personal traits for every woman born in one country.
Today many countries around the world are faced with a balancing act of incorporating new citizens into their society while
maintaining national identities.
This group investigation into issues such as mandatory service and
national identity resulted in a series of connected works, including an eighteen - minute video.
The proliferation of socially and psychologically constructed identities now seems to take priority over any sense
of national identity.
The search
for national identity provides the historic backdrop for La vida en marcha: Mexican Prints from the Permanent Collection.
Writing a dissertation entitled «Queenship and the Construction of
National Identity in Nineteenth - Century British Visual Culture,» Korkow received her PhD from the University of Virginia in 2008.
The frequent court battles over public prayers, Ten Commandment memorials and holiday displays might strike some Americans as silly, but they touch on deep questions
about national identity to reach back to the Founding Fathers, Haynes said.
Arantes» topical project aims to explore issues of
national identity through the lives of these first - generation Afro - French women as they navigate the conflict between European liberal culture and the traditional education of their parents.
A former governor of Osun, Mr Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has resigned his appointment as the Chairman of
National Identity Management Commission (NIMC).
These ideas shaped my undergraduate thesis at Harvard College where I looked at how Canadian history was taught differently in English and in French and how these understandings of the past
shaped national identity in the present.
The State of Reconciliation in Australia report identified a «
shared national identity», in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures and rights are valued and recognised, as one of five dimensions required to achieve reconciliation.
Anjum Anwar was speaking after the documentary, called «What British Muslims Really Think», surveyed 1000 British Muslims and explored their beliefs about various social issues
including national identity, violence, sexuality and gender relations.
Undertaking to shape
Russian national identity, the Church promotes patriotism and traditional values in coordination with government propaganda.
We wish to express our concern at some of the statements on
English national identity, immigration and the English Defence League, made by your close advisor, Lord Maurice Glasman, Labour peer and founder of «Blue Labour».
Nourishment returns to contemporary art in more ways than one in the exhibition The Construction of
National Identity by Stephen Lapthisophon.
With the Ottoman Empire crumbling, many states saw this as an opportunity to
build national identity, which led to war breaking out when Montenegro sent in troops who were later joined by Serbian, Bulgarian and Greek forces.
In the years following the Mexican Revolution (1910 - 20), jewelry and other silver objects were crafted there with an entirely innovative approach, informed by modernism and the creation of a new
Mexican national identity.
This view was especially important in the United States, since Enlightenment thought had so much to do with
defining national identity.
The desire for Europe to come together seems to be changing and there's
more national identity as opposed to European identity.
A distinction has to be made
between national identity building legitimate under international human rights law and a propagandistic ideology formation serving limited interests of people in power.
It was, White told the symposium, the first longitudinal experimental study to use a synchronous internet chat tool to foster a dual identity among students — helping to build a
common national identity of an environmentally sustainable Australia, while retaining their religious identities.
White nationalism is a type of nationalism or pan-nationalism which holds the belief that white people are a race and seeks to develop and maintain a
white national identity Its proponents identify with and are attached to the concept of a white nation.
In his talk, Rockman will situate Wood in a tradition of American art in
which national identity depends on a personal visual vocabulary.
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