CDNS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Print Culture, German Romanticism, Canadian Studies
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Notes : set a meeting time with teacher (peter) We are bound together through through either language/ ethnicity or both. You belong to a group of people, like a family. Political movement showing we are worth belongs to it, and worth protecting it (it is positive) we must upholding identity to the nation. Tells us that our state we belong to is superior to all other states (we are the best is what it tells us) Nationalists tell each other we are the best. We wear the flag (tattoo, shirts, flags, etc). (cid:498)in your face(cid:499) Slides: anthony smith, nation as a (cid:498)natural formation(cid:499, existence since time immemorial, people born with a nationality, ethnicity and language. They are born with the nationality, it is a fixed characteristics. Language and nation group go together (language determines thought). We learn our language between our community, it means each nation thinks differently. It determines how people think about the world and act.