what are some theories about ethnic and nationalist violence?
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That every time you see a story in the newspaper about a crime, and the person who did it isn't pictured it is considered ethnic violence.
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iraqi blood will stop flowing when mankind stops believing in violence and starts accepting the Ghandian way of peach and non violence. Violence for whatever reason, is still violence! there is no "justified" violence as some would call it. The human race become brutal and greedy, we no longer know the meaning of contentment and happiness. all we know is we want more more more! For a species with the most advancely developed brain, we often make choices that do not reflect our intellect. One such choice is the choice to kill and cause pain....for whatever reason. i hope that one day before i die, i will be able to see peace on earth.
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It very much depends on how you define nationalism. If it means just being proud of your country and your roots that's one thing, if it means treating people who come from other countries into your own as second class citizens or making their lives hell simply beause they don't originate from the country they now live in, then yes, it's racism in my view.
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No. Nationalism itself will get outdated when humans become responsible and honest. After all when it comes to making money, how many people are concerned about nationalism? Money is the only religion that has no division of races, nations or even notions! Even religion and its development needs helluva lot of money. Communism was born for equitable distribution of money - to make the poor rich and rich the poor (equitable!!). Unfortunately, they did not have a proper capitalistic calculator and results were terrible - everyone except the accountants(members of the politbureau) became poor! Do you think people from those communist countries die for nationalism?? They are trying to run away to find jobs and money - so much for nationalism. So where is the question of good nationalism?
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through personal attacks and violence
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There is and has been for over 200 years a cultural war between the East and the West.\n\nThe conflict is ideological (the current war is an escalation) and is between two competing moralities:  Rational Self-Interest (selfishness) and Altruism (selflessness).  \n\nYou'd better hope and pray that selfishness wins, because it's rival (the morality of Altruism) is responsible for the worst of mankind's history (wars, mass murder, political oppression, etc.).
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NATIONALIST TERRORISM: \nNationalist terrorists seek to form a separate state for their own national group, often by drawing attention to a fight for “national liberation” that they think the world has ignored. This sort of terrorism has been among the most successful at winning international sympathy and concessions. Experts say that nationalist terror groups have tended to calibrate their use of violence, using enough to rivet world attention but not so much that they alienate supporters abroad or members of their base community. Nationalist terrorism can be difficult to define, since many groups accused of the practice insist that they are not terrorists but freedom fighters. Examples of nationalist terrorist groups include the Irish Republican Army and the Palestine Liberation Organization, both of which said during the 1990s that they had renounced terrorism. Other prominent examples are the Basque Fatherland and Liberty, which seeks to create a Basque homeland separate from Spain, and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which seeks to create a Kurdish state independent from Turkey. \n\nRELIGIOUS TERRORISM: \nReligious terrorists seek to use violence to further what they see as divinely commanded purposes, often targeting broad categories of foes in an attempt to bring about sweeping changes. Religious terrorists come from many major faiths, as well as from small cults. Nearly half of the 56 known, active international terrorist groups were religiously motivated. Because religious terrorists are concerned not with rallying a constituency of fellow nationalists or ideologues but with pursuing their own vision of the divine will, they lack one of the major constraints that historically has limited the scope of terror attacks, experts say. Examples include Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network, the Palestinian Sunni Muslim organization Hamas and the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah\n\nSTATE-SPONSORED TERRORISM: \nState-sponsored terrorist groups are deliberately used by radical states as foreign policy tools as “a cost-effective way of waging war covertly, through the use of surrogate warriors or ‘guns for hire.’” One important early case was the Iranian government’s use of supposedly independent young militants to seize hostages at the American embassy in Tehran in 1979. With enhanced resources at their disposal, state-sponsored terrorist groups are often capable of carrying out more deadly attacks than other terrorists, including airplane bombings.\n\nLEFT-WING TERRORISM: \nLeft-wing terrorists are out to destroy capitalism and replace it with a communist or socialist regime. Because they see most civilians as suffering from capitalist exploitation, left-wing terrorists sometimes have limited their use of violence to avoid hurting the victims they say they want to save. Left-wing terrorists sometimes focus instead on such tactics as kidnapping tycoons or bombing monuments. Examples are the Baader-Meinhof Group (Germany), the Japanese Red Army, the Weathermen (1970s America), and the Red Brigades (Italy).\n\nRIGHT-WING TERRORISM: \nRight-wing terrorists are among the least organized terrorists, often associated with neo-Nazi street rioting in Western Europe, especially in the early 1980s. These groups, often dominated by skinheads, seek to do away with liberal democratic governments and create fascist states in their place. Neofascist terrorists frequently attack immigrants and refugees from the developing world and are both racist and antisemitic. \n\nANARCHIST TERRORISM: \nFrom the 1870s until about 1920, anarchist terrorism was a major global phenomenon. Revolutionaries seeking to overthrow established governments launched a wave of bombings and assassinated a series of heads of state; one such victim was President William McKinley, killed in 1901 by a young Hungarian refugee influenced by anarchist sentiments. Some experts see signs of a new interest in anarchist violence arising out of the recent wave of protes
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OPPRESSION and GREED is the MAIN reason for CONFLICT.
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There are some political conflicts between the two countries and there were some conflicts in the history but poeople these days are just fine. One can always find someone to hate some other person or people, but in the level of individual people we get along just fine. As a Turk, we do not care much about them couse we believe that we are superior so we do not care much about any one who dislikes or hates us.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_nationalism
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Look at all of the unrest in Africa -- it's ALL directly related to the colonization of Africa.\n\nThe British had a nasty habit of arming and equiping a minority group to keep the majority ethnic group 'at bay'.  This little policy of theirs is directly related to various ethnic problems, Rwanda is a perfect example.
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That is a great question I've been trying to answer for a long time. \n\nHere's what I suspect. \n\nHatred usually stems from one of two primary causes, fear and ignorance. Anger can also play a key role in hatred. \n\nPeople who hate usually hate because they are fearful of those they hate, and/or they are ignorant of those they hate. \n\nFear is a powerful motivator. It can be used by political leaders to coerce masses of people to hate other groups. This is usually the case where you see regional groups of those who hate. \n\nFor example, the Ku Klux Klan. Why do they hate those who are different? They grow up in a culture that is ignorant and fearful. The ignorance and fear is utilized to reinforce their bigoted world view. It's perpetuated by regional culture. \n\nThe trick to dispelling it, is to insure that people are educated and exposed to the truth of things. \n\nSo, I would say the level of hate in people's hearts is rooted in fear and ignorance.\n\nOn the plus side, I think most people want peace. So there is hope for the human race. We just have to be able to look past our fears and ignorance. \n\nBottom line all people basically want the same things. Why fight with each other, when we can work together for our own mutual benefit?
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see how u view it. good part about ethnocentrism is that it creates a line between your culture and the other, in some part, it means retaining ur own culture without giving a chance of other culture from penetrating into ur culture. it creates a culture identity. the bad part bout ethno. is that it leads to bad consequences. you view other culture as a more inferior culture, and sum may consider it as a threat. how to resolve? by practicing culture relativism. view other culture in their own shoes. \n\nethnic pride makes us vary from each other. ethnocentrism is a sub of ethnic pride (I think).
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the violence will increase of course. violence only breeds more violence.  and it doesn't matter that they killed him and 7 aids of his b/c those terrorists are very dispensable. they've already replaced him i'm sure.
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disease, slavery, massacres, forced assimilation, ethnic cleansing, lies and distorted history. :)
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you r right to say that there is no evidence for it. but did you know that there are lots of material in turkish archives prooving armenians killing turkish men and raping turkish women. thats because they are made to move to southern turkey from their home. when this happened the relatives of armenian's victims started doing same to the killers. also there are records in archives showing that ottoman empire established a law to protect armenians. \nin fact both sides are a bit guilty but people overlook that it was war time and turks and armenians are pained.\ni think that armenians are doing wrong because they preferred to blame turkey and tried to gain sympathy in a politic way and refused to investigate history in a scientific way. i also think that they managed it because everybody on earth has a certain prejudice about turkey right now.\nWHY DOES ANYONE TRY TO READ SOME ABOUT THIS ISSUE, FROM BOTH POINTS OF VIEW?
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Violent people and Indians