![]() ![]() ![]() The great sacred communities of the past (Christendom, the Islamic Ummah, the Middle Kingdom) were imaginable through the medium of a sacred language and written script. Communities are to be distinguished not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined. In fact, Anderson says, all communities larger than primordial villages of face-to-face contact (and perhaps even these) are imagined. A nation exists when a significant number of people in a community consider themselves (or, in other words imagine themselves as to form a nation, or behave as if they formed one. Imagined Communities Imagined CommunitiesÄ«enedict Anderson, 1983, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of NationalismÄefines the nation as an "imagined political community": imagined because the members of the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion. ![]()
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