The word "ideology" is used in different ways, but what Natalia seems to be talking about is a set of ideas about who belongs to a nation and who doesn't. When Te Pāti Māori and their supporters say that we are not one, but two nations, each of which ought to govern their own affairs, this looks like an ideology. It's an ideology that ma…
The word "ideology" is used in different ways, but what Natalia seems to be talking about is a set of ideas about who belongs to a nation and who doesn't. When Te Pāti Māori and their supporters say that we are not one, but two nations, each of which ought to govern their own affairs, this looks like an ideology. It's an ideology that makes ancestry (rather than simply citizenship) the key factor in deciding what nation you belong to: a view that political scientists call "ethnic nationalism".
The word "ideology" is used in different ways, but what Natalia seems to be talking about is a set of ideas about who belongs to a nation and who doesn't. When Te Pāti Māori and their supporters say that we are not one, but two nations, each of which ought to govern their own affairs, this looks like an ideology. It's an ideology that makes ancestry (rather than simply citizenship) the key factor in deciding what nation you belong to: a view that political scientists call "ethnic nationalism".
Onya Thomas!
When reactions and emotions get organised into movements, that is when they change from human responses to ideologies.
Correct John :)