EDEC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Interculturalism, Speech From The Throne
8 Dec 2016
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Like a tribe but more formal sense (geographic entity) Unified group of people functioning as a whole. Nation is defined differently in every country. How you identify yourself and if your nation accepts your identity (identification by self and others) Togetherness of people and one accepted ideology. Before that you had kingdoms, empires, city states . The rise of nations in africa, across the caribbean. It didn"t take long for people to start identifying themselves. Linguistic unity was brought up but not all nations share a language. Nations may share a race but not necessarily. The foundation for nationhood: having done great things together and wanting to do them again the nation is an ideological structure. An essential element of nation: they become part of it but also forget things. Benedict anderson defines nation as an imagined political community and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign.
