national myth

Examples of national myth in the following topics:

• A Multicultural Society

  • It is generally applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the organizational level, e.g. schools, businesses, neighborhoods, cities, or nations.
  • The absorption of the stream of immigrants in itself became a prominent feature of America's national myth, inspiring its own narrative about its past.
  • The Melting Pot tradition co-exists with a belief in national unity, dating from the American founding fathers:

• The End of Affirmative Action?

  • The absorption of the stream of immigrants became, in itself, a prominent feature of America's national myth.
  • It is argued that Nation states, who would previously have been synonymous with a distinctive cultural identity of their own, lose out to enforced multiculturalism and that this ultimately erodes the host nations' distinct culture.

• The Founding of Rome

  • Myths surrounding the founding of Rome describe the city's origins through the lens of later figures and events.
  • The most familiar of these myths, and perhaps the most famous of all Roman myths, is the story of Romulus and Remus, the twins who were suckled by a she-wolf.
  • The national epic of mythical Rome, the Aeneid by Virgil, tells the story of how the Trojan prince Aeneas came to Italy.
  • The hero Aeneas was already well known within Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad.
  • But Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas’s wanderings and his vague association with the foundation of Rome and fashioned it into a compelling foundation myth or national epic that tied Rome to the legends of Troy, explained the Punic Wars, glorified traditional Roman virtues, and legitimized the Julio-Claudian dynasty as descendants of the founders, heroes, and gods of Rome and Troy.

• Farming As Big Business

  • As has been true since the nation's founding, continuing improvements in farm machinery, better seeds, better fertilizers, more irrigation, and effective pest control have made farmers more and more successful in what they do (except for making money).
  • As these numbers demonstrate, the American "family farm" -- rooted firmly in the nation's history and celebrated in the myth of the sturdy yeoman -- faces powerful economic challenges.

• Dispel Myths Within Your Organization

• Jelling Stones

  • The Jelling Stones are also strongly identified with the creation of Denmark as a nation-state, and both stones offer the earliest examples of the name Danmark (in the form of tanmaurk on the large stone, and tanmarkar on the small stone).
  • One scholar has suggested that this imagery was used to suggest that Christ had replaced the Norse pagan god Odin, who in one myth hung for nine nights in the tree Yggdrasill.
  • National Museum of Denmark
  • One scholar has suggested that this imagery was used to suggest that Christ had replaced the Norse pagan god Odin, who in one myth hung for nine nights in the tree Yggdrasill.

• The Five Emperors

  • According to myth, following the period of the Three Sovereigns, five successors, known as the Five Emperors, introduced the basic aspects of culture.
  • Nevertheless, he has been regarded as the ancestor of all Han Chinese, the largest ethnic nationality in all of China.
  • Yu the Great, Color on silk at the National Palace Museum in Shilin, Taipei, Taiwan.

• Ethnicity

  • Cohen also suggested that claims concerning "ethnic" identity (like earlier claims concerning "tribal" identity) are often colonialist practices and effects of the relations between colonized peoples and nation-states.
  • At the level of "ethnic networks", the group begins to have a sense of collectiveness; at this level, common myths of origin and shared cultural and biological heritage begin to emerge, at least among the elites of that group.
  • At the level of "ethnies" or "ethnic communities", the members themselves have clear conceptions of being "a named human population with myths of common ancestry, shared historical memories, and one or more common elements of culture, including an association with a homeland, and some degree of solidarity, at least among the elites".
  • According to this framework, the idea of ethnicity is closely linked to the idea of nations and is rooted in the pre-Weber understanding of humanity as being divided into primordially existing groups rooted by kinship and biological heritage.
  • Some of the social traits often used for ethnic classification include nationality, religious faith and a shared language and culture.

• Mississippian Culture

  • This contributed to the myth of the Mound Builders as a people distinct from Native Americans.
  • Mississippian peoples were almost certainly ancestral to the majority of the American Indian nations living in this region in the historic era.
  • The historic and modern day American Indian nations believed to have descended from the overarching Mississippian Culture include: the Alabama, Apalachee, Caddo, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee Creek, Guale, Hitchiti, Houma, Kansa, Missouria, Mobilian, Natchez, Osage, Quapaw, Seminole, Tunica-Biloxi, Yamasee, and Yuchi.

• Polytheism

  • For instance deities portrayed in conflict in mythology would still be worshiped sometimes in the same temple side by side, illustrating the distinction in the devotees mind between the myth and the reality.
  • Ceramic, h. of bodhisattva 17 cm; National Museum of Korea)