[0:00]Yesterday we focused in on the Revolutions of 5.2. But that's only half the battle. The other half is nationalism. Today we focus on the modern concept of nationalism.
[0:15]Let's start with what the college board means by nationalism. People around the world developed a new sense of commonality based on language, religion, social customs, and territory. This was sometimes harnessed by governments to foster a sense of unity. Keyword there, commonality. You probably associate with one nation or another, a group you share commonalities with. Now the college board's going to use nationalism in two ways. First, from the last part of that quote, harnessed by governments to foster a sense of unity. This is referring to a few different nationalism movements that are mentioned in the curriculum. So let's focus in on two of them, the Germans under Otto von Bismark and the Ottomans with Ottomanism. Both of which use nationalism to foster a sense of unity. Bismark used it to unify Germany in the 1870s. The Ottomans used it a little differently. The Ottomans use nationalism, or what they called Ottomanism, to get all of the different millets to think of themselves instead of being Armenian or Jewish, or Orthodox, or Sunni, instead to think of themselves as Ottoman. So their commonality was that they were Ottoman. And the second way they use nationalism is to challenge boundaries. Here's the college board's take. Newly imagined national communities often linked this new national identity with borders of the state, and in some cases, nationalists challenged boundaries or sought unification of fragmented regions. Bismark fits into this category too, using nationalism to unite all the German states into one nation, Germany. But the challenge boundaries part is the one where four different illustrative examples reside. Here's my top two. First, the propaganda movement. The Filipinos towards the end of this period made a stand against the Spanish in a movement known as the propaganda movement. It was led by Dr. Jose Rizal. He was a Filipinoologist polymath who led the push for equality with the Spanish in the Philippines. And in the most Spanish Empire move ever, they executed him for it by shooting him in the back. Now this guy's a national hero. I made an illustrative examples video about it. I highly recommend it. This guy stood up for the Filipinos and started the process, which will eventually lead to their independence in the 20th century. Second, the Maori in New Zealand. Don't even get me started on how amazing the Maori are. As the British are there, modernized and charging and trying to steal their land, you know, how the British do. They stood strong and threw a haka right in their stupid British faces. So that's nationalism. It's the commonality that people share and what they do with it. Either unifying the people or challenging national borders of an empire. Okay, so it took us a couple days, but we finally covered the first two sections of Unit 5. Hope the rest of this unit is some small topic that we can just kind of glance past. So, let me just look ahead here. Oh, right. The Industrial Revolution. I'll see you tomorrow and then the next seven tomorrows. Damn, this is a long unit.
