ANT E101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Newfoundland And Labrador, Physical Geography, Hypodescent
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Nations are universal" but very specific everyone has to have one. Notion of nationhood in europe was a broad crosscutting way, based on language, religion, shared history. People didn"t start acting and identifying in the way that we do now. Italy didn"t formalize (constitution) until 1861 or something like that. At the time of unification, only two or three italians actually spoke italian, other old nations, france only half of the inhabitants could speak french. Awful lot of the work of nationalism is making everyone speak the same language. Everyone is supposed to have one but also have to be different, it distinguishes you, settler canadians, the boundary between. Benedict anderson defined nation: an imagined political community, and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. Nations are good at encouraging people to kill. Imagined means that you will have to work to convince that you have something in common in new foundland, but there is something that would unite you.
