Philippines as a Nation-State

1st week lecture

November 12 and 15, 2018
 State vs. Nation
State
Political extension of a nation
supposed to contribute toward consolidation of a nation
Nation
considered as an expression of a state’s identity
supposed to be the foundation of the state

Nation- State
alignment of political and cultural units
 Nation
• Large group whose members believe they belong
together on the basis of shared identity.
• Shared identity allows them to imagine themselves as
belonging to a national community (imagined
community)
 Nation
A product of two forces:

1. Group’s need to have cohesion

2. The individual members desire to belong

The group needs cohesion in order to:

“survive a distinct entity”
“security and meaning”
 Nation
Ethnic Nation
-something that is based on ethnicity
-assumed to be composed of more or less a single
ethnic group

Territorial Nation
-something that emerged from pre-defined territory
 Nation
• Ethnic Nation is assumed to be composed of more or less single
ethnic group
• Territorial Nation is composed of various ethnic groups that have
come to be assimilated into a nation.

• Ethnic diversity exists when various ethnic groups comprise a

nation, a condition where members live together symbiotically
if not harmoniously.

• Conflict only emerges when cleavage arises. A condition when

members reject their identity as members of a nation and
demand that they be recognized as a separate people.
 State
An organization composed of numerous
agencies led and coordinated by the
executive authority.
• It involves machinery, agencies, jurisdictions powers and
rights.
• A network of systematic relationships.
– Centralized
– Specialized
– Permanent
– impersonal
 Nation Building and State Formation
• Nationhood is the basis of forming states
• People’s sense of nationalism is supposed to
help contribute to state formation
• Some countries in Asia including the
Philippines western Colonizers established
governments to facilitate the governance of
newfound territories
 Nation Building and State Formation
• During the decolonization, territories became
boundaries of newly independent nation-
states that were composed of several ethno
linguistic groups
 Nation Building and State Formation
• Filipinos tend to identify and align themselves
on the basis of their region of origin of birth
• Geographic setting can be accounted for vast
differences
• Colonization, marginalizing and religious
indoctrination
• Filipinos are territorial rather than ethnic
nation