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Citizenship acquisition is viewed as the key indicator of political incorporation into US society and one motivated by the desire to formally engage in the civic realm, but we know naturalization is undertaken for many reasons. What we know less about is what motivates particular groups. Through surveying 74 lower socio-economic immigrants of color initiating the naturalization process at free citizenship clinics in the Boston, Massachusetts area in the northeastern United States in fall 2019, we examine the stated motivations to naturalize. The survey data reveal that the desire to engage politically is the most commonly cited primary motivation to naturalize (44%), followed by a desire to feel safer in the US (29%). When looking at primary and secondary motivations, 66% cite the ability to vote, and 59% cite the desire to feel safer. The combined motivations of security and political engagement suggest a “threat-opportunity” model of citizenship acquisition, whereby immigrants assess the external socio-political threats and seek to neutralize them through both naturalizing and then engaging politically to change the environment. At the same time, statistically significant relationships between motivations and ethno-racial group and country of origin suggest additional factors must be examined.
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В работе рассматриваются ключевые моменты формированияорганизационной структуры двух ведущих словенских партий – католической и либеральной иособенности их организационно-политической деятельности на начальном этапе партийногостроительства – в конце XIX – начале XX вв. Автором предпринимается попытка провестисравнительный анализ организационных аспектов их деятельности, исходя из того, чтоэффективность механизмов функционирования партии является одним из важнейшихпоказателей ее успешности. Поскольку развитие католического и либерального движенийпроходило неравномерно в разных словенских областях, в статье делается акцент прежде всегона деятельности партий в центральной словенской провинции Крайне, оказывавшей сильноевлияние на формирование региональных политических партий.В начале XX в. партия католиков превратилась в монолитную и широко разветвленнуюмассовую организацию. Ее структура постепенно становилась все более четкой и хорошопродуманной, а деятельность энергичной и целенаправленной. Либералы же не смогли создатьсплоченной и хорошо организованной партии. Католики опирались на многовековой опытадминистративной деятельности такой мощной организации, как католическая церковь.Организационный опыт либералов в основном был опытом деятельности индивидуальныхпредпринимателей, слабо осознававших необходимость партийной дисциплины. Еще доПервой мировой войны католическая Словенская народная партия стала лидером словенскогонационального движения и сохраняла свои позиции весь межвоенный период.
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This paper analyzes the circumstances that led to a break in diplomatic relations between Yugoslavia and Chile, which began in the fall of 1947 and lasted until they were reestablished in November 1950. The analysis is based on archival material, relevant literature, and contemporary journalism. The events are considered within a bilateral context and the broader international context of the Cold War. Particular attention is given to argumentation on both sides and to the background behind this conflict. The influence of this rupture in Yugoslav–Chilean relations is also analyzed. The second part of the paper will discuss how all of this was presented to the Yugoslav public.
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The author of this paper tries to provide a brief overview of the practical application of the contemporary religious education program and points to possible guidelinesfor its future development in order to eliminate or reduce the difficulties in its performance. The paper explores some of these problems through the prism of social practicefrom the standpoint of the politicology of religion. The author examines the focus of theseproblems in challenging the achievement of the goals of religious instruction within theframework of the scholastic education system. Departure of folkloristic understanding ofthe religion itself, as well as openness and readiness to cooperate Religious Education incorrelation with Civic Education and other subjects is the only way to repress hatred andviolence among young people, the necessary steps towards a more tolerant multireligiousand multicultural Europe.
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Today the language of pornography unfolds not only in sex word dictionaries or texts, but also on various web pages. Our study is based on a corpus for which we analyzed a variational material relating to the non-standard: around a hundred erotic biographies of homo- and bisexual pornstars gathered on the French-speaking site https://www.videosxgays.com/. The objective of our analysis is to look at the discursive construction of the identity of X actors in order to highlight the power ethos that emerges in the discourse studied through a specific repertoire of linguistic instruments.
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Weaponized rhetoric designates a contest for influence in cognitive space, conducted through symbols. Weaponized rhetoric is both a substitute for war and a new method of warfare. Weaponized rhetoric goes beyond persuasion, argumentation, or propaganda in their traditional senses. The main tools of weaponized rhetoric are narrative, action, and image. Politics today begins to resemble information warfare, while the notion of security (national, personal) becomes equated with cognitive security. The highest prize and stake in this warfare is reputation and its correlate: legitimation. These developments constitute a challenge to rhetorical (and citizenship) education.
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The paper deals with the visual and verbal modes as well as interrelations between them employed in dominant argumentation on the British and German magazine covers devoted to president Donald J. Trump. Following the concept of multimodality and the notion of enthymemes the author discusses analogy and causality as predominant types of argumentation occurring on the covers of THE ECONOMIST and DER SPIEGEL and illustrates the contribution of the visual image to the (re-)construction of the tacit components of the argumentation.
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In this article entitled Sino-Indian territorial dispute implications and perspectives, there is an analysis made on how this dispute started between China and India and what were the major implications that this dispute brought. We will see the importance of this territorial dispute between the two Asian giants and also the opportunities it offered to the great powers such as USSR and the United States. One of the main focuses will be the way China managed to win some of the territories that India had and how did that affect the security of the continent and the relations between the states that were involved in this conflict. This border conflict between China and India is important even today because it still involves the two super powers and their allies mainly because right now China is on the verge of becoming the world’s biggest economy. At the end of the article we will see a comparison between the armies and economies of China and India to see who had the biggest ascension and if they will be able to rise at the same pace, and if not, how will it affect the security of the Asian continent. Knowing the stakes that this conflict had, it is interesting to see what will happen in the future because their border dispute hasn’t concluded since 1962 even though there hasn’t been a major fight between the two armies since the end of the war. No one knows if this conflict will come to an end anytime soon.
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Péntek János – Benő Attila: A magyar nyelv Romániában (Erdélyben). Sorozatszerkesztő: Kontra Miklós. Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület – Gondolat Kiadó: Kolozsvár – Budapest, 2020. 473 oldal
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Göncz László: Emberek a Pannon végeken. Huszadik századi sorsok a magyar–szlovén határ mentén. Magyar Nyugat Könyvkiadó: Szombathely, 2019. 344 oldal
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Western Pomerania was said to be called as a stronghold of the left, for the Democratic Left Alliance both in the 1990s and at the beginning of the 21st century achieved some of the best results in the country. Only after the parliamentary and presidential elections in 2005 and the local government elections in 2006, the electoral preferences changed towards the center of the political scene. The Civic Platform of the Republic of Poland turned out to be the change, Law and Justice to a lesser extent.The article presents a political analysis of the voting preferences of the inhabitants of West Pomerania in the local government elections with regard to the three mentioned parties. The aim of the research was to analyze the direction in which the electorate goes. It was checked whether the SLD was permanently eliminated and how strong the dominance of the PO was. Furthermore it was examined whether PiS is a real threat to the PO RP and whether the SLD has a chance to regain its lost position.It seems that regardless of the attempts made, the position of the SLD after the 2006 elections is stable and there are no indications that the Alliance could dominate the analyzed region again. However, in spite of the fact that since 2006 the PO enjoys high support, since 2014 PiS has been achieving better and better results, depriving the PO RP hegemon in its position in 2006–2014.
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The modern political class, which has been established on democratic principles both in Europe and America, is keen to use rhetoric and tools it provides. Any attempt to define the influence of these tools principally refers to the essence of rhetoric which is persuasion. Persuasion, on the other hand, is core to political discourse which, according to Teun van Dijk (1997, p. 14) is contextual, therefore must be recognized by its functions and/or goals. The functions of the discourse are often expressed in rhetorical devices and therefore play an important role in achieving political goals. The pieces of information presented in this article depict rhetorical devices as useful in increasing persuasiveness. Attention is paid to figures of repetition which constitute a universal category of rhetorical devices and thus need to be examined in a greater detail, especially in a discourse whose users focus their efforts on constructing effective persuasion.
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W artykule próbuję odpowiedzieć na pytanie o rolę organizacji międzynarodowych w zachowaniu pamięci o Holokauście na przykładzie Organizacji Narodów Zjednoczonych. Tekst rozpoczyna się od krótkiego rysu historycznego przedstawiającego okoliczności powstania ONZ. W kolejnych częściach odnoszę się do konkretnych przykładów działań, których celem (choć nie zawsze jedynym) było przeciwdziałanie ludobójstwom oraz upamiętnienie Zagłady. Omawiam dwa dokumenty: Powszechną Deklarację Praw Człowieka oraz Konwencję w Sprawie Zapobiegania i Karania Zbrodni Ludobójstwa. W tekście odnoszę się także ustanowionego przez Zgromadzenie Ogólne ONZ w 2005 roku Międzynarodowego Dnia Pamięci o ofiarach Holokaustu. Z kolei w ostatniej części próbuję odpowiedzieć na pytanie czy podejmowanie przez organizację działania w tym obszarze są skuteczne.
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