Nationalism Readings – Connection Questions
8.1- What is a nation?
1) According to Renan, what is a nation? How does a nation get its identity?
2) According to Charles De Gaulle, what does it mean to be French? Did his ideas of nationality involve race?
3) What is the danger of linking nationalism with race? How does it increase the vulnerability of minorities?
8.2 – Nationalism, Power, and Identity in Europe
1) How did the French Revolutionaries define who belonged?
2) Who had the power to make laws? Who was protected by the laws?
3) How did the German Volkgeist influence ideas about German national identity? How did Germans begin to view outsiders?
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