Practicing Success
Read the passage given below and answer the questions based on it: Historically, states have tried to establish and enhance their political legitimacy through nation-building strategies. They sought to secure... the loyalty and obedience of their citizens through policies of assimilation or integration. Attaining these objectives was not easy, especially in a context of cultural diversity where citizens, in addition to their identifications, with their country, might also feel a strong sense of identity with their community ethnic, religious, linguistic, and so on. Most states feared that the recognition of such difference would lead to social fragmentation and prevent the creation of a harmonious society. In short, such identity politics was considered a threat to the state unity. In addition, accommodating these differences is politically challenging, so many states have resorted to either suppressing these diverse identities or ignoring them on the political domain. Policies of assimilation - often involving outright suppression of the identities of ethics, religious or linguistic groups - try to erode the cultural differences between groups. Policies of integration seek to assert a single national identity by attempting to eliminate ethno-national and cultural differences from the public and political arena, while allowing them in the private domain. Both sets of policies assume a singular national identity. |
Out of the following which policy insist that the public culture to be restricted to a common national pattern while all 'non-national' cultures are to be practiced within private sphere. |
Isolationist Policy Assimilationist Policy Integrationist Policy Nationalist Policy |
Integrationist Policy |
The correct answer is Option (3) → Integrationist Policy Integrationist Policy: The passage explicitly states that this policy aims to "eliminate ethno-national and cultural differences from the public and political arena" while "allowing them in the private domain." This aligns with the description of restricting public culture to a common national pattern while relegating non-national cultures to the private sphere. |