A New National Identity

The nation-state is political concept, refers to an administrative apparatus with power or control over a specific area within the nation-state system.

• True

• False

People, especially the dominants who have power, are the nation-state.

• True

• False

Choose the correct word to describe the national identity.

National identity is form of ... identification with the symbols and discourses of the nation-state.

• imaginative

• consequent

• constitutional

• comparable

Nation-state, nationalism, and national identity are constructed through ... (you can choose more than 1 answers)

• political agreement

• social, cultural, and historical identification and representation

• discursive action of ideas of origins and continuity of tradition

What is national identity?

• elements of nationhood that holds cultural symbols and conventions

• personal identification of certain groups

National identity is a psychological condition in which a mass of people have embodied the symbols of the nation.

• True

• False

Why the narratives of unity is problematic?

Who postulates the concept of Imagined Community?

• Benedict Cumberbatch

• Benedict Anderson

Why it is called 'imagined'? You can choose more than 1 answers.

• Because in a nation, the members will never know most of their fellow member, meet them, or connect to them. They need an idea to connect them.

• Because the sovereignty of a nation is maintained through an idea of unity, although the people is living in different condition which may result in inequality and exploitation.

• Because it is an ideal nationalism to make people united and nation grow stronger.

How imagined community is presented through according to Anderson? You can choose more than 1 answers.

• Press

• Vernacular that becoming 'national language'

• National identity

• Localized identity