Rise of Nationalism in China and Korea
Introduction
Nationalism is the notion of considering your culture, value, traditions, language and other important aspect of life superior to other countries. There are primarily two political perspective of socialism. The first one is primordial’s view, which identifies the nationalism as a reflection of perceived and ancient tendency of human being that encourages them to bifurcate it into distinct group or system. The second view is the modernist perspective that identifies that for existing into modern society, there are some structural conditions.
Although Koreans and Chinese seem to depict two distinct nationalities but both of them have myriad sub-classes of nationalism. The nationalism in North Korea is based on the notion of presented in the form of Juche Idea. On the contrary, in South Korea, it is depicted by the concept of “New Nationalism”. As China has the world’s biggest population base, there are also various different views.
Research Questions
The research will explain the following questions:
1) What caused the rise of nationalism in Korea and China?
2) What are the similarities and differences in the rise of nationalism in Korea and China?
3) How the nationalist view in Korea and China has transformed from ancient time to the
Modern era?
Analysis
American Progressiveness, Chinese Thinking, Russian Ethnological Thought, and Marxism have contributed towards the rise of Chinese nationalism. Myriad conflicting and different manifestation also depicts it including the Ultra-imperialism. The Communist Party of China, Three Principles of the People, Japanese Collaboration under Wang Jingwei, Fascist Blueshirts, and Tiananmen Protest of 1989 are some of the historical moments when this was manifested.
A centralized Chinese State has been normally a dire desire of all the Chinese nationalists, but most the questions faced are subject to bitter and intense debate. There are numerous questions on which there has been a historical disagreement of Chinese Nationals like: what policies will make a stronger China, What relationship should China have with foreigner powers, what is the structure of its goal and the state, and what should be the relationship amongst Majority, Minority Groups, Han Chinese and Overseas Chinese.
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