Tag: humanities
Words for a nation
Whatever it means to be human varies in some way from person to person. Yet everyone has a collective albeit oftentimes both unexpressed and inexpressible understanding of this common denominator. Similarly, nations differ from how they understand their ‘group’ and ‘other groups’ while all calling these unique sets using similar terms. In the twenty-first century…
On the relevance of ethnic homogeneity in the 21st century
Can there instead be a way of defining a ‘nation’ beyond the boundaries of history and cultural similarities? Or is there even value still in cultivating such an idea—a nation of people—when the collective human race is being taken toward an inevitable connectedness? While there are mental gymnasts struggling to ‘establish’ and ‘develop’ what they…