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Notes on video lecture:
Multiculturalism and Transnational Communities
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on March 25, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
conflict, Asia, immigration, ourselves, differentiate, dispute, mobile, transnational, origin, emancipatory, borders, Africa, Germany, vexes, peacefully, peace, themselves, religious, racism
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how to live together                      in a diverse society
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an issue that            societies around the world
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how can people with different beliefs, backgrounds, looks, and ideas live together with as little                  as possible
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                       is as old as humanity itself
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100,000 years ago: the march out of              for homo sapien sapiens
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modern migrations across the Atlantic or         
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with globalization, immigration is accelerated
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                           communities
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communities which exist across               
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even people connecting via computer programs such as World of Warcraft
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these communities are becoming more enabled by              technology
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mass migration
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has become a major issue in countries around the world
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               over borders
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two key concepts
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1. nationalism
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started out as an                          concept to bring about self-determination for people who self-identified and shared
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a myth of             
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a common language
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a group identity
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a desire to rule                      in opposition to an empire or centralization of power
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brought about the unification of places like Italy and               
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the rallying cry to come together usually comes with the rallying cry to                            ourselves with others
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othering
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distinguishing ourselves in some way from others
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distinguishing these others from                   
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often goes hand-in-hand with              and a categorization of "us vs. them"
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2. multiculturalism
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societies with a mixed makeup of peoples from diverse cultures and                    heritage
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othering is damaging for multicultural societies
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for policy makers, multiculturalism has been a concept used to make           
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create a more equal playing field for immigrants
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to socially engineer a new, national identity

Spelling Corrections:

emancipitory ⇒ emancipatory

Ideas and Concepts:

Anthropological word of the day, via this evening's World Anthropology course: "othering, n. the process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundamentally different or alien"
Multiculturalism and Transnational Communities