MODERN STATE AND RATIONALISATION OF IDENTITY.

The attack on and torture of Indians in Australia provokes one to think as to why ethnic onslaughts are taking place at a time when we are talking of globalisation and even some academics in Australia use the concept of hyperglobalisation as taking place in developed countries like that of theirs. Ironically, globalisation has not replaced nationalism. The concept and practice of globalisation is primarily based on an economic logic, secondly, on a logic based on interaction that the more is the interaction the lesser is inclination on the part of the people to hold onto their ethnic identity and thirdly on the success story of the melting pot model in America to realise the goal of political integration. Identity has occupied a predominant place in the reasoning ability of every human-being. And rationalisation of identity has occurred primarily for three reasons first due to rationalisation of nationalism by the scientific theories as the consequence of the impact of the objective socio-economic forces unleashed by the enlightenment ideas on society, second, rationalisation of sameness as a means to realise modem concepts of liberty, equality and justice if not in the primordial sense of identity but on the basis of shared moral and constitutional principles and the last is the historical role of identity in the arena of science and reason and failure of theorists to separate the horizon of modernity from that of traditionalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]