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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
Whilst not as robust as his previous books, this book is still a worthy read because it is contemporary. I wanted desperately to rate it 4* or more, but it spent too much time on psychoanalysis.
The last third of the book is where issues become very intriguing and the reading thoroughly engrossing to the extent that it is topical and addresses much of the identity politics surrounding us on a global scale.
A liberal democracy is not sufficient in itself to address issues integration of people of different ethnicity and race. This book looks at these issues and identifies areas with which we must look at if we wish to truly become a liberal state.
This book is not for the shortsighted who are espousing a "one nation, one race state", such as Trump is fastidiously asserting, this book is for the liberal minded amongst us who have lost sight of building a successful multicultural state accommodating immigrants and successfully integrating them into the larger society.
The last third of the book is where issues become very intriguing and the reading thoroughly engrossing to the extent that it is topical and addresses much of the identity politics surrounding us on a global scale.
A liberal democracy is not sufficient in itself to address issues integration of people of different ethnicity and race. This book looks at these issues and identifies areas with which we must look at if we wish to truly become a liberal state.
This book is not for the shortsighted who are espousing a "one nation, one race state", such as Trump is fastidiously asserting, this book is for the liberal minded amongst us who have lost sight of building a successful multicultural state accommodating immigrants and successfully integrating them into the larger society.
challenging
informative
reflective
fast-paced
Fukuyama portrays identity as one of today's primary fault lines between political groups, including nationalist movements, islamist fighters, and college campus controversies. He believes in the ability to reform religious and ethnic identities into more inclusive ones based on a creed of democratic values and highlights the American and French identity as belonging to the more inclusive ones. The EU identity has largely failed, but Fukuyama still believes it can be saved by implementing a common EU citizenship, standardized EU curriculum in public schools, etc. He chooses to overlook the importance of language as part of identity in the discussion of EU identity, while he highlights the problems associated with multilingual schools in New York in failing to assimilate children into the American identity.
On identity issues in Middle East and Africa:
Austria-Hungary:
On identity in institutions:
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On identity issues in Middle East and Africa:
"Weak national identity has been a major problem in the greater Middle East, where Yemen and Libya have turned into failed states, and Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia have suffered from internal insurgency and chaos. Other developing countries have remained more stable, yet remain beset by problems related to a weak sense of national identity. This is the situation throughout sub-Saharan Africa, and it is a major obstacle to development. Countries such as Kenya and Nigeria, for example, are ethnically and religiously divided; stability is maintained only because different ethnic groups take turns in power to loot the country. High levels of corruption, poverty, and failed economic development are the result."
Austria-Hungary:
"Ethnic diversity led to the breakdown of the liberal Austro-Hungarian Empire in the decades prior to World War I, when its component nationalities decided they could not live together in a common political structure. Fin de siècle Vienna was a melting pot that had produced Gustav Mahler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Sigmund Freud. But when the empire’s narrower national identities—Serbs, Bulgarians, Czechs, and Austro-Germans—asserted themselves, the region descended into a paroxysm of violence and intolerance.">
On identity in institutions:
"national identity is important for the quality of government. Good government—that is, effective public services and low levels of corruption—depends on state officials placing public interest above their own narrow interests. In systemically corrupt societies, politicians and bureaucrats divert public resources to their own ethnic group, region, tribe, family, political party, or to their own individual pockets because they do not feel obligated to the community’s general interests."
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"The functioning of democratic institutions depends on shared norms, perspectives, and ultimately culture, all of which can exist on the level of a national state, but which do not exist internationally."
challenging
informative
medium-paced
4/5
An interesting book grappling with the idea of “identity politics” and the dangers of categorising people too broadly, leading to fragmentation. Summarised and explained using real-world examples and a short chapter on what to be done. Sometimes slightly limited but as it covers a range of topics in a pretty concise way, it balances out.
An interesting book grappling with the idea of “identity politics” and the dangers of categorising people too broadly, leading to fragmentation. Summarised and explained using real-world examples and a short chapter on what to be done. Sometimes slightly limited but as it covers a range of topics in a pretty concise way, it balances out.
** Books 123 - 2022 **
3 of 5 stars!
When one of my book twitter friends recommends this books that one should be buy in Big Bad Wolf BSD 2022 i'm curious why the title is identity? what kind of identity that will be explain in this pieces?
The topic about discrimination, inequality and injustice is really blowing and how the correlate with identity is..
it is kinda interesting books but yes i do agree that is isn't light book that we can read in just sitting
3 of 5 stars!
When one of my book twitter friends recommends this books that one should be buy in Big Bad Wolf BSD 2022 i'm curious why the title is identity? what kind of identity that will be explain in this pieces?
The topic about discrimination, inequality and injustice is really blowing and how the correlate with identity is..
it is kinda interesting books but yes i do agree that is isn't light book that we can read in just sitting
Such an interesting perspective on the state of our current political order - identity as a precursor of rising populism. Fukuyama’s underpinning of his argument is outstanding, including both historical and philosophical grounds on which he construes his argument.
All in all, a book which seeks to explain how we go to where we are now, and which provides a potential balance where national identity can be considered as something positive, something that will unite us into a greater common identity.
All in all, a book which seeks to explain how we go to where we are now, and which provides a potential balance where national identity can be considered as something positive, something that will unite us into a greater common identity.
Interesting and at times insightful but falls prey to the narrative fallacy perhaps and maybe naive
I may not have always agreed with Fukuyuma on different aspects of his political theory, but the entirety of this book seems to hit all the right spots. Instead of outright theorizing, it is a breath of fresh air that he was able to describe things as they happen, without any ideological filter whatsoever.
informative
medium-paced
I don't regret reading this but wouldn't recommend to a friend. Made some weird faces reading this one.