Concepts of Nationalism

But on closer examination our usage is more complex and ambiguous than it may seem initially. In a historical context we may speak of "the Frankish nation," or "the Cherokee nation," although neither was ever precisely a nation in the modern sense. Italy and Germany were both identifiable as nations, with distinct national languages, cultures, and traditions, long before they were unified as states in 1870. The ancient Greeks had a distinct "national" sense of themselves as Hellenes, yet their political loyalties were given wholly to individual city-states such as Athens and Sparta.

"Nationalism," likewise, suffers from a certain ambiguity. In the modern formal sense of the word, nationalism is understood to be a rather recent concept.

Nationalism, as we know it, is a modern development.

It has had its origin and rise in Europe,

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