INTRODUCTION undivided of th...

INTRODUCTION

undivided of the characteristics of recent nationalism has been its use of simplistic emblems By "nationalism" I refer to the political moves rising in the nineteenth centenary defining individuals as belonging to universal cultural and linguistic traditions, which were largely invented (Anderson, Hobsbawm). each national movement has defined the perimeters of the linguistic and cultural cluster constituting the "nation" in simplistic period of times The complexity of demographic, ethnic, class, or political affiliations was given up for the sake of myths of