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what does "national identity" really even mean, anyway?

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Pranay Somayajula
Jun 09, 2022
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Anyone who has ever taken a freshman-level political science course has likely encountered the work of Benedict Anderson, the Anglo-Irish political philosopher whose 1983 book Imagined Communities famously argued that the “nation” as we understand it today is “an imagined political community…imagined because the mem…

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