![]() ![]() Two dramatic sociopolitical changes shaped the modern concept of “nation” throughout history, said Anderson. With that being said, the study of the origin of the “nation”, a modern concept according to Anderson, becomes the first step to comprehend nationalism. What holds people together in a modern nation, argued by Anderson, is shared citizenship and the fact that people could interpret the same meaning from their citizenship. This is, nations are formed before we even realized it and the inevitable process of nationalism begins thereafter. ![]() ![]() Instead, it could be better interpreted as the unselfconscious and abstract nature of a nation. Yet, the most crucial premise throughout the book, which is, a nation is an imagined community, does not entail the fakeness of a nation. Anderson argued that a nation is an imaginary political community, as we cannot know everyone in this community, even in the smallest nation. Thereafter, he inspected the origin and natures of nationalism. In Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson analyzed what nationalism entails from a philosophical sense. ![]()
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