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nationalism (Nation: it is an imagined political community - and imagined…
nationalism
Nation: it is an imagined political community - and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign.
Limited:because even the largest of them, encompassing perhaps a billion living human beings, has finite, if elastic, boundaries, beyond which lie other nations.
Sovereign: because the concept was born in an age in. which Enlightenment and Revolution were destroying the legitimacy of the divinely-ordained, hierarchical dynastic realm.
Imagined: because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion
Community: regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship.
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