because they believe their nation was a naturalmanifestation of their people. Not so‚ according to Benedict Anderson’sImagined Communities(Anderson 1983).Nations are a purely modern manifestation which arecreated for political purposes.It is my aim to summarizeAnderson’s work‚ analyze and give critical input on hismethodology and biases‚ and provide a my summary of thoughts on how this work benefitsus today.II. Summary Anderson sets the stage of this work by defining nations as imagined‚ limited‚ and
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globalization A nation is a human cultural and social community. In as much as most members never meet each other‚ yet feel a common bond. Members of a "nation" share a common identity‚ and usually a common origin‚ in the sense of history‚ ancestry‚ parentage or descent. A nation extends across generations‚ and includes the dead as full members. Past events are framed in this context: for example‚ by referring to "our soldiers" in conflicts which took place hundreds of years ago. Nations are assumed
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A Modern Modest Proposal It is a truly depressing matter to witness the complete and utter destruction of Haiti. Since the earthquake‚ the nation has being slowing withering away. The people that inhabit the land are suffering terribly and enduring the most brutal conditions. Tent cities‚ populated by close to seven thousand people‚ are being subject to crime and the propagation of a multitude of diseases. Parentless children wander aimlessly‚ searching for any remnant of food or even a single
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“Let the naming and shaming begin”(CNN). The Chinese government and the population of the nation are getting their index fingers ready and their cackling voices warmed up for prime aversive conditioning for the results of the list of the ten most air-polluted cities on China. This list is to be followed up each and every month‚ along with a parallel list of the best environmentally conscious cities in the nation‚ in the hopes that national humiliation will push positive environmental action. Recent
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previous decades. These leaders soon became aware of the fact that they had to ensure their public was pleased with their decisions or else face the repercussions of their decisions Education had the most profound effect on a nation‚ playing a decisive role in shaping a nations perspective on war‚ it had the potential to approve‚ disprove‚ fight‚ liberate‚ or conquer as a whole force. However‚ national spirit itself was revered; it enabled a country to fight in any war‚ despite their chance‚ it gave
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all over the world. Some countries come together and form an Association for their mutual benefits‚ eg European Union‚ ASEAN etc. international trade highly influences global events in the world as the rise of one nation can lead to the rise of another and the downfall of a another nation. The exchange of goods and services allow an increase in global connection‚ global economy‚ and efficiency. Some country allow free trading of goods‚ not imposing any tax‚ and sometimes impose heavy tax on some of
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prove to be problematic in their development and the development of the nation. One of the nation’s assumptions of children is that they are naive. Because they are of a young age they must lack common sense that is assumed they have not fully developed yet. Adults believe that they are responsible for teaching the children everything because they think there is no way that they will figure it out on their own. The nation assumes children lack competence‚ it is often thought that their perspective
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closer to the values and ideals that it was originally founded on. Benedict Anderson argues‚ "A nation is an imagined political community and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign."(Anderson‚ 6). Through these advances‚ America has come closer to achieving Anderson ’s belief of an imagined political community. Anderson believes it to be 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
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Smith is the idea that nations are natural phenomenon which are that have been around since the beginning of creation. The constructivist approach which Anderson describes is the idea that nations are made up by the members in them. Anderson defines nationalism as “an imagined political monnunity and imaged as both inherenly limited and sovereign” (Anderson‚ 5-7). However both ideas believe that there regardless of approaches both share the idea that people within nations share a strong bond and
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are directly linked to a census – generally viewed as a matter of bureaucratic routine‚ a necessity of the modern age‚ a kind of national accounting. By our racial‚ ethnic‚ linguistic or religious “marks”‚ we are a part of a specific society or nation. But it was not always like that. People often had the sense of simply being “from here” and did not realize the complex meaning of “to belong”. History gives us great examples of struggle for identification. In Southeastern Europe‚ at the turn of
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