![]() ![]() To the extent that our ambitions are thwarted because of where we were born, that locale will attract a great deal of national identity as a result. ![]() I’m not sure exactly who this book is for, but I certainly found it to be an interesting discussion of the way that nationhood involves an imagined community that we feel ourselves connected to, and that is a community in which the way that others treat us is important in forming those identities. The author then, after the fact, returned to this work and made some additions and notes while being gracious about the suggestion that his work was too liberal for the Marxists and too Marxist for the liberals. This book was, in a way, prophetic, as the author commented on the way that nationalism served as a threat for Marxist regimes and ended up unintentionally predicting the fall of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. Imagined Communities, by Benedict Anderson ![]()
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