Nation
A Nation is a large collective of people with common origins and common characteristics (a national identity).
- Context:
- It can be associated with a Nation-State.
- It can (often) have delusion about its ancestry.
- It can (often) have a common disdain of its neighbors.
- It can (often) have one or more Cultures.
- It can be associated with Nation Building.
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- Example(s):
- The Japanese, The Koreans, The Taiwanese?, ...
- The French, The English, The Germans, The Austrians, ...
- a Multi-Cultural Nations, such as: The Americans, The Canadians, The Mexicans, ...
- The Jewish Nation? The Zionists?
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Habitus (Sociology), Ethnic Group, Race (Human Classification), Tribe, Community.
References
2019
- https://foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2019-02-05/new-americanism-nationalism-jill-lepore
- QUOTE: ... To review: a nation is a people with common origins, and a state is a political community governed by laws. A nation-state is a political community governed by laws that unites a people with a supposedly common ancestry. When nation-states arose out of city-states and kingdoms and empires, they explained themselves by telling stories about their origins—stories meant to suggest that everyone in, say, “the French nation” had common ancestors, when they of course did not.
2016
- (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nation Retrieved:2016-10-22.
- A nation (from Latin: natio, "people, tribe, kin, genus, class, flock") is a large group or collective of people with common characteristics attributed to them - including language, traditions, mores (customs), habitus (habits), and ethnicity. By comparison, a nation is more impersonal, abstract, and overtly political than an ethnic group. It is a cultural-political community that has become conscious of its autonomy, unity, and particular interests.
Stalin's Marxism and the National Question (1913) declares that "a nation is not a racial or tribal, but a historically constituted community of people;" "a nation is not a casual or ephemeral conglomeration, but a stable community of people"; "a nation is formed only as a result of lengthy and systematic intercourse, as a result of people living together generation after generation"; and, in its entirety: "a nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture."
The nation has been described by Benedict Anderson as an “imagined community” and by Paul James as an "abstract community". It is an imagined community in the sense that the material conditions exist for imagining extended and shared connections. It is an abstract community in the sense that it is objectively impersonal, even if each individual in the nation experiences him or herself as subjectively part of an embodied unity with others. For the most part, members of a nation remain strangers to each other and will never likely meet. Hence the phrase, "a nation of strangers" used by such writers as Vance Packard.
- A nation (from Latin: natio, "people, tribe, kin, genus, class, flock") is a large group or collective of people with common characteristics attributed to them - including language, traditions, mores (customs), habitus (habits), and ethnicity. By comparison, a nation is more impersonal, abstract, and overtly political than an ethnic group. It is a cultural-political community that has become conscious of its autonomy, unity, and particular interests.
2016b
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/22/english-nationalism-belonging-britain-scottish-independence
- QUOTE: As a guide to human characteristics, “the English” isn’t useful. Like many general descriptions, it falters in the face of the particular. “The masses are always the other, that we do not know, and cannot know,” wrote the scholar and critic Raymond Williams in 1958, and perhaps I’m starting to use “the English” in a similar way, to describe people other to myself and the people I know at first or second hand. …
… Of course, to be British had once been a braggart identity.
- QUOTE: As a guide to human characteristics, “the English” isn’t useful. Like many general descriptions, it falters in the face of the particular. “The masses are always the other, that we do not know, and cannot know,” wrote the scholar and critic Raymond Williams in 1958, and perhaps I’m starting to use “the English” in a similar way, to describe people other to myself and the people I know at first or second hand. …
1945?
- William Ralph Inge.
- QUOTE: ... A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors. ...