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 7), so your thoughts are especially welcome.
Once again, here are our blog sites:
BALKAN:
ALB Albania | BIH Bosnia & Herzegovina | MKD FYR Macedonia | SRB Serbia
ALB Albania | BIH Bosnia & Herzegovina | MKD FYR Macedonia | SRB Serbia
BALTIC:
EST Estonia | FIN Finland | LAT Latvia | LTU Lithuania
CAUCASUS/C.I.S.:
ARM Armenia | AZE Azerbaijan | GEO Georgia | RUS Russia
EASTERN:
BUL Bulgaria | GRE Greece | MDA Moldova | ROM Romania
CENTRAL:
AUT Austria | CZE Czech Republic | HUN Hungary | SLO Slovenia
Who are we?
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 nursing, computer science, business administration, and sociology.For most of us, this course is our very first encounter with the Eurovision Song Contest. We hope you Eurovisionaries won't hold that against us!
