Multicultural nationalism? National identities among minority groups in Scotland’s census

Implicative Identities in Groups

Recently W. McCune and D. A. Sands have considered, in a note Amer Math. Monthly 103 (1996), 888{892], implicative axioms in groups of the form if u = v, then w = t, where u, v, w, t are group words in some variables. Their interest is in such identical implications that deene the variety of groups, or the variety of abelian groups. What I want to present is, slightly more generally, identical ...

national identity and nationalism in central asia

this paper examines the evolution of nationalism and national identity in europe and how it was transferred to and propagated in central asia by the soviets. it further examines the challenge facing central asian peoples in the post-soviet era; namely in defining a new national identity for themselves as new independent nation-states in the age of globalization. the paper attempts to demonstrat...

Deaf identities in a multicultural setting: The Ugandan context

Often located far apart from each other, deaf and hearing impaired persons face a multiplicity of challenges that evolve around isolation, neglect and the deprivation of essential social services that affect their welfare and survival. Although it is evident that the number of persons born with or acquire hearing impairments in later stages of their lives is increasing in many developing countr...

National Development Generates National Identities

The purpose of the article is to test the relationship between national identities and modernisation. We test the hypotheses that not all forms of identity are equally compatible with modernisation as measured by Human Development Index. The less developed societies are characterised by strong ascribed national identities based on birth, territory and religion, but also by strong voluntarist id...

Minority Families in the United States A Multicultural Perspective