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#AdventOfBooks Day 14: Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson #Bookstodon

A book about how artificial the idea of a nation is. The core of the book is the point that we will never have direct contact with even a fraction of those that we feel belong to our national community, so somehow that community feeling must be generated.

I liked his focus on non-European nationalsim, which I knew less about, and which made the distinction between language and national communities much more evident