Media, Information and Technoculture 2153A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tim Hortons, Imagined Communities, Neocolonialism
10 Dec 2016
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All communities larger than primordial villages of face-to-face contact are imagined. Communities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity or genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined. One can think of themselves as canadian or american within their respective country, yet materially one is aligning themselves with 100s of millions of other people in which they have no connection within that same nation. Any formation of community is the product of imagination in which we can only conceive of in the mind, says benedict anderson in his essay imagined c ommunities. He argues people imagine a connection between them and their surrounding citizens in which they will never truly encounter. People associate certain mannerisms, behaviours, activities, and interests to certain nations and populations residing in specific countries. Ex: canadians are polite, live in igloos, love hockey, live off of tim hortons. The idea of nationalism is a very new notion in human history.
