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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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