How have people reconciled Nationalist and Non-Nationalist loyalties?

What is reconciling?
            Reconciling can be described as settling matters down and take out the contention between two things. In social words taking the contention out of two contending loyalties. Those loyalties can be Nationalist or Non-Nationalist.

What is the difference between Nationalist and Non-Nationalist?
           Nationalist Loyalties are the loyalties which are embedded in the notion of a nation. For example: Loyalties to your ethnic or civic nation. Non-Nationalist Loyalties are not embedded in the idea of a nation. For example: being loyal to your friends, family, sports team. However, it can be overlapped or can be argued that being loyal to friend is like being in a collective or some people call themselves a nation when they support a sport team. So, if there is singular loyalty it drops into Non-Nationalist category but if the there is a collective for one loyalty it falls in Nationalist category.

Non-Nationalist.

Nationalist.

Now, How have people reconciled their Nationalist and Non-Nationalist Loyalties?
            Non- Nationalist and Nationalist Loyalties Reconciled: When Nationalist and Non-Nationalist loyalties compete there can be two options: Live with contending Loyalties or Choose one over another in a peaceful manner called reconciling. People may live with both loyalties because they might think that as individuals they can't make a difference. If people to prefer one loyalty over another it can lead to alienation, the feeling of being left out. However, people can find ways to include both Nationalist and Non-Nationalist Loyalties:

• For example, some countries don't allow Sikh people to wear their ceremonial dagger in schools. However, In Canada Sikh people have the choice not to violate their religious loyalty and make both Nationalist and Non-Nationalist Loyalties coexist.

Ceremonial Dagger.

•  In 1950s there was a lot of segregation in U.S against African Americans, in other words forced separation of racial groups. So they fought for sense of belonging. 8 teens were the first blacks to get in a high school in US but they treated very badly. After fighting and US not responding one of them named Minnijean Brown Trickey moved to Canada. This gave her the opportunity to fully reconcile her loyalties since Canada was more democratic at the time compared to US.

Minnijean Brown Trickey.

 

 

•  Reconciliation always works if someone tries. For example, after 911 attack a Muslim person was traveling and accidentally got deported to Syria and was tortured. His wife protested in Canada and her husband was not guilty and at last he freed and given 10.5 million dollars in compensation for his ordeal. Wife's name is Mazigh and her husband's name is Arar.

            
           










                                                                 

How have people affirmed their Nationalist Loyalties?

What are Nationalist Loyalties? 
            In my word and my understandings, Nationalist Loyalties are being loyal to your nation. It can either be your civic or ethnic nation. For example: If you are an immigrant to Canada as a Sikh and you respect Canadian beliefs and values but when somebody tells you to do something against your Sikh culture you will be loyal to Sikh culture. This makes you to affirm Nationalist Loyalties and makes you a nationalist.

National Aboriginal Day represent First Nations in Canada.

  If you have now understood what Nationalist Loyalties are let's get started on,
 
 How have people affirmed their Nationalist Loyalties?
             People take actions to affirm their Nationalist Loyalties either individually or in a group. If individual you might wear a maple leaf pin to represent Canada or if in a group you can sing Canadian Anthem out loud to represent that you are loyal to your Nation. The Following examples are from people who affirmed their Nationalist Loyalties:
Affirming First Nations Loyalties: Aboriginal people were pressured down by the Canadian government but in 1982 they chose to affirm their status as nations by restructuring and reorganizing the National Indian Brotherhood-renaming it The Assembly of First Nations. By creating this assembly they have insisted on maintaining their status as nations so that they can deal with the Canadian government on a nation-to-nation basis.

All in an Inuit Place Name: Cultural names can be useful tools to affirm your nationalist loyalties. For example Inuit names of the places were too hard for the Europeans to pronounce, so they changed the names of the villages and places of the Inuit. Fortunately, Inuit has stepped up to affirm their loyalties to their nation by figuring out what the names were before they were changed.Names and Inuit Identity: Inuit names are special and that's what makes them affirm their loyalties. Rather than using modern names Inuit people have started using their cultural names. For example:  Kiviaq is an Inuit boy who was named David Ward but then he struggled with the government to have his Inuit name "Kiviaq" which is just a first name without a last name. This represent how Kiviaq has affirmed his Nationalist Loyalties.

Kiviaq

National Loyalties in a Multicultural Society: Canada is a civic nation and immigrants come here for their rights to be protected and that's why multicultural society is common in Canada. Many newcomers are attracted by Canada's reputation for cultural pluralism. Even though all immigrants take the oath to leave their ethnic nations and join this civic nation, they can still show and can affirm their Nationalist Loyalties because their hearts can't ignore their own heritage.

Expressing Non-Canadian Nationalist Loyalties: First immigrants will fit in Canadian society but later on they will fell good about showing Non-Canadian Nationalist Loyalties. For example, even if a person might live in Canada but he/she will cheer for their own Olympic team or support their country with economy. Putting Multiculturalism to the Test: Reasonable accommodations are provided to people who can't violate their Nationalist Loyalties. For example: Baltej Singh Dhillon was given the accommodation to wear a turban and keep a beard in an RCMP job because he can't violate his religion by removing his turban.

Baltej Singh Dhillon

  That's it for on how people affirm their Nationalist Loyalties.
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