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“Defining a nation as an ‘imagined political community,’ he argues that it was the ‘deep, horizontal comradeship’ of nationalism that ‘makes it possible, over the past two centuries, for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings.’ I remembered these words last year when I heard of teenagers in Hong Kong going out to fight the police with sticks and shields in their hands and their last will and testament in their pocket.” Read more...
“to die for your country is of course traditionally considered to be noble. But for your ethnic group or your tribe or, god forbid, for your family – that’s considered to be pretty low brow, a low level affiliation. But here’s Benedict Anderson with his brilliant book and he’s saying essentially that the nation, for which it is noble to die, is a fantasy founded in accident.” Read more...
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