Greek National Identity
Greek National Identity What is National Identity? National identity is the sense of membership and belonging to an imagined cohesive nation, expressed by adopting and supporting the distinctive beliefs, values, and cultural traditions associated with it. Nations are not an objective entity, but rather a collection of people who feel an inherent connection to one another based on their location within the established territorial boundaries, as well as commonalities surrounding culture and social norms. The distinctive factors that define a nation can include language, religion, ethnicity, shared myths and heroes, or economic system such as the type of currency. Benedict Anderson’s “Imagined Communities" offers a definition of a nation as an “imagined political community – and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign” (Anderson 3). I argue that, although a national community is imagined in the sense that you will never personally know the rest of the memb...
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