In our first blog posts, we're looking at what makes the national identity of our twenty chosen Eurovision countries.
We've been asked to explain "national identity" in our own words, then use evidence from our research to identify key aspects of our country’s national identity.
In addition, we'll discuss what types of Othering, if any, help generate and maintain that national identity.
We've been asked to use in-text citations and a full list of references using the APA system. If you find these references off-putting, we suggest you skip over them while reading.
Your feedback is appreciated, so please leave your constructive comments at the end of our posts. For this first blog post, we have the option of revising the text based on feedback (by February 8), so your thoughts are especially welcome.
Once again, here are our blog sites:
BLR Belarus | BEL Belgium | BUL Bulgaria | CRO Croatia | CYP Cyprus | DEN Denmark | GEO Georgia | GRE Greece | HUN Hungary | ISL Iceland | ISR Israel | LAT Latvia | MDA Moldova | MNE Montenegro | NOR Norway | POR Portugal | RUS Russia | SRB Serbia | ESP Spain | TUR Turkey
Who are we?
You might be asking yourself who "we" are in this post. We are a group of 20 first-year undergraduate students at Seattle University who are mostly not majoring in the humanities, but are learning about Eurovision and national identity through a humanities inquiry course as part of the university's Core Curriculum. We'll be going on to major in such fields as civil engineering, nursing, business, criminal justice, biology, and communication.For most of us, this course is our very first encounter with the Eurovision Song Contest. We hope Eurovisionistas won't hold that against us!
