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Contending loyalties

Nationalist [vs] Non-Nationalist LoyaltiesSlide2

Where do your loyalties lie?

Write down something/someone a person/you can be/are loyal to.

Do your loyalties ever create a conflict with you? (this can either be a conflict with yourself or others.Slide3

What are contending loyalties?

Contending loyalties are loyalties that compete with each other. Often there has to be a choice between one or the other.

Can you think of examples either in your life or with other people when there would be contending loyalties?Slide4

Nationalism and Loyalty

Nationalism:

People feel a sense of loyalty, commitment, and identification with a particular nation

How deep does one’s loyalty to a nation have to be?

Does this depend on the nation and/or circumstances?

Are there times when your loyalty to a nation might be challenged?Slide5

Contending Nationalist Loyalties in Canada

20-1: What challenges arise from having contending nationalist loyalties?

20-2: How can nationalist loyalties create conflict?Slide6

Contending Loyalties of French Canadians

What challenges arise from having contending nationalist loyalties?

Social 20-1

What are the existing contending loyalties in each case? Do/did they require reconciliation?

Language Loyalties and Bill 101

The Rise of the ADQ

French Canadians Fighting for Canada

Social 20-2

Quebecois Nationalism

Language & Economic Opportunity

The Quiet Revolution

Bill 101

The Sovereignty Debate

(Sovereigntists

vs Federalists)Slide7

Contending Loyalties of Aboriginal Canadians

What challenges arise from having contending nationalist loyalties?How have people reconciled contending loyalties?

Social 20-1

Aboriginal people, Aboriginal nations vs Canada

Ideas and Opinions, p. 107

First Nations and the

Meech

Lake Accord

How did Elijah Harper and Phil Fontaine’s loyalties to the First Nations influence their actions?

The Dene’s desire for self-determination

Inuit Perspectives

Labrador Inuit delay vote on uranium mining (p. 109)

Social 20-2

Quebecois Nationalism

The Oka Crisis, 1990

The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9YMNIlPRl8

)

Canadian Government’s Statement of Reconciliation

Aboriginal Land ClaimsSlide8

July 1 in Newfoundland: An example of nationalist loyalties creating conflict

The morning of

July 1st 1916

, about

780 soldiers

of the Newfoundland Regiment we’re ordered to advance against heavy machine gun and artillery fire at Beaumont- Hamel, France. Hundreds of soldiers were wounded and 324 were killed, only

68

soldiers were able to report for duty the next morning. The battle took place on the first day of disastrous

Battle of the Somme

, which lasted months. During those months, more than

a million

soldiers were killed or wounded.

Battle

of Somme, July 1, 1916Slide9

Canada Day

The celebrations vary from

serious

and

patriotic to wild

and wacky. But July 1 mean something different to many

newfoundland

. When they wake up on July 1st, some many plan to attend a

Canada day celebration

. But some also plan to attend

memorial day ceremony

to honor the Newfoundlanders that have fall at

Beaumont-

hamel

during

World War I

.

”

…

You see, Canada just happens to celebrate its birthday on the anniversary of the bloodiest day in Newfoundland history.”

– Rick MercerMost people don’t know about this fight, but people in Canada should take just a moment on July 1st to recognize the people that died in Newfoundland on that day. Slide10

Quick Review of Nationalist Loyalties

Attending celebrations (Pow wows, national holidays, keep informed about your home country)

Affirm nationalist loyalties (names, wear a maple leaf, sing national anthem)

Cultural Pluralism:

encouraging collectives to promote and affirm their unique culture in a multicultural society

Reasonable Accommodation:

a legal constitution concept that require institutions to adapt to the religious and cultural practicesSlide11

Non-Nationalist Loyalties

A loyalty that does not involve the idea of nation. People may be loyal to and identify with family, friends, a region, an idea, group/collective, a way of life,

culture

What challenges arise from having contending non-nationalist loyalties?Slide12

Religious Loyalties and Civic Loyalties

Canadians have the right to freedom of religion AKA One can challenge laws & regulations if they feel their religious freedom is at risk

Hutterites

exempt from driver’s licence photos (p. 112/3)

How does this example demonstrate a reconciliation of contending loyalties?

Can you think of other examples in which religious beliefs contend with civic laws or social conventions?

What challenges arise from having contending non-nationalist loyalties? Reconciliation?

February 2007,

Asmahan

Mansour was not allowed to play in a soccer game because she wore a hijab, cited as a safety issue

Others argued that it was an example of failing to accommodate the traditions of people from minority groupsSlide13

Religious Loyalties and Civic Loyalties (cont’d)

Conscientious Objection in Canada

German Hutterites, Dutch Mennonites and Russian

Doukhobors

Pacifists, financially contributed to WW victims

Fellow Canadians questioned their loyalty to Canada

What challenges arise from having contending non-nationalist loyalties?

Regional Loyalties in Canada

Think about your ties to a region. What would you identify as your region, and how strongly are you and the people around you attached to it?

Do you regional loyalties contend with any other loyalties you have? Explain.Slide14

Global Loyalties

What challenges arise from having contending global loyalties?

#20-1Slide15

Environmentalism and Contending Loyalties

Conservation and rehabilitation of the natural environment following the damage caused by human consumption and development

Needs of the environment vs needs of humankind

Figure 5-8, p. 117

Read: Forest Loss in Sumatra Becomes a Global Issue (p. 118)

Create a mind map that illustrates the stakeholders involved in this case and what loyalties they might have (refer to Figure 5-8)

What challenges arise from having contending global loyalties?

#20-1Slide16

Humanitarianism and Contending Loyalties

What is humanitarianism?

Root word

How may loyalty to humanitarian beliefs be subject to contentious loyalties?

Quick glimpse of misery in Haiti (p. 120)

Should the Canadian government respond to the plight of people in other nations?

How should we choose which nations to support?

What challenges arise from having contending global loyalties?

#20-1Slide17

How do Nationalist and Non-Nationalist Loyalties Contend?

When nationalist and non-nationalist loyalties lead people to different goals

Conflicts can be attributed to divisions in class

P

eople

may be identified as members of classes according to the work they do, the level of education, ethnicity, ancestry, wealth or combination of factorsSlide18

Non-Nationalist

vs

Nationalist

Loyalties

(p. 87-94)

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Reconciliation of Nationalist and Non-Nationalist Loyalties

When situations such as the competing of nationalist and non-nationalist loyalties occur, people have options in how they handle this:

They often try to reconcile (settle) by:

Living with the contending loyalties

Choosing one over the other

Accommodating non-nationalist loyalties by bringing about changeSlide20

Imagine…

because of the colour of your skin, you were not allowed to drink from the same water fountain

you could not attend the high school of your choice

you were forced to sit in a certain area of the bus

To what extent would you go to fight for your rights to be treated as an equal member of society?Slide21

Review Questions

Social 20-1

Explore the Issue

#1 p. 111

#1-2 p. 115

#1-3 p. 121

Pause and Reflect p. 113

Social 20-2

Recall

…

Reflect...Respond

#1-3 p. 71

#1-2 p. 76

#1-2 p. 88

Making a Difference #1-2 p. 98