GEOG 140 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Michael Billig, Rupert Murdoch
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The local scale of identity gives way to a more geographically expansive national sense of homeland with nation making. Socializing state and homeland attachment in school. Pledge of allegiance to start the school day in u. s. England pictured in terms of a landscape: green rolling hills, shady nooks, copses, winding lanes, and nestling thatched villages. Flags, money, other symbols of the state territory. The hindu goddess durga as the personification of india. British imperial cartographers drew political borders around. Siam, unintentionally creating a cartographic expression of the nation or geobody" within which a thai nation could be imagined. Fatherlands", motherlands," and the promotion of myths of common biological ancestry and identity in connection to one"s country. Nationalists mobilize myths and images of a primordial homeland to reinforce the depiction of the nation as an ancient community of belonging; an organic singularity rooted" to a particular place.
