JOUB01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hooj Choons, Monolingualism, Major Religious Groups
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Looking at the rise of a nation or a country sees it as imagined political community. Nation: cultural, historical similarities in same territory. Nation-state: most states these days are nation-states, combination of state and nation, Sovereign state: control without outside influence, nation-states are supposed to be sovereign (but the world sucks so no. ) a goal of a group/population with common identity can reach in their state: all used interchangeably. Nation is, in post-1800s conception, borrows from a lot of forms of community that preceded it: builds upon familial and kinship connections, knowing that further abroad you"ve got some kin or family somewhere. Limited: has finite, if elastic, boundaries beyond which lie other nations : past boundaries of nation-state is another nation. Sovereign: the gage and emblem of this freedom is the sovereign state . World religions at the time were pluralistic; they shared identities but their nationalities were not completely aligned: religion has remained such a valued identity.
