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| The question feels like it is multiple choice: | The question feels like it is multiple choice: | ||
| - | < | + | **Where are you from? Is it: |
| - | Where are you from? Is it: | + | |
| + | a) Antarctica | ||
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| + | b) Belize | ||
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| + | c) Cambodia | ||
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| + | d) Denmark … | ||
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| + | and on and on…** | ||
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| - | c) Cambodia\\ | ||
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| - | d) Denmark …\\ | ||
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| We believe we live in a mass society and each of us is an individual face in the crowd. In fact, many different forces are at work that seek to put everyone in different kinds of classificatory schemata. | We believe we live in a mass society and each of us is an individual face in the crowd. In fact, many different forces are at work that seek to put everyone in different kinds of classificatory schemata. | ||
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| * 1917: Finland attains independence as a nation-state, | * 1917: Finland attains independence as a nation-state, | ||
| - | ===== The Swedish | + | ===== The Swedish question ===== |
| Who are “the Finnish people”? Many people of independent Finland speak only Swedish and live in communities where only Swedish is spoken (and many Swedish-speaking people have a lot of economic power). | Who are “the Finnish people”? Many people of independent Finland speak only Swedish and live in communities where only Swedish is spoken (and many Swedish-speaking people have a lot of economic power). | ||
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| * The nation exists in a uniform time, much like a published train schedule. Time for you is the same for everyone else. | * The nation exists in a uniform time, much like a published train schedule. Time for you is the same for everyone else. | ||
| * Nationalism is an “imagined community” (as opposed to a real community). One participates in the community solely within one’s own imagination, | * Nationalism is an “imagined community” (as opposed to a real community). One participates in the community solely within one’s own imagination, | ||
| - | * European states did not create nationalism. Andersonian nationalism in the sense of an imagined community | + | * European states did not create nationalism. Andersonian nationalism in the sense of an imagined community |
| * Creole (or mestizo) populations of European colonial territories developed their own sense of themselves as national “imagined communities” (Anderson [1983] 2006, 58–59). | * Creole (or mestizo) populations of European colonial territories developed their own sense of themselves as national “imagined communities” (Anderson [1983] 2006, 58–59). | ||
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| ===== The limits of the imagined-community thesis ===== | ===== The limits of the imagined-community thesis ===== | ||
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