THE CHRYSALIS OF BUILDING NATION INHERENTLY CULTURAL SYSTEM Fatality of Human

Nation according to Benedict Anderson is an LIMITED Linguistic Diversity

“Imagined Political Community” where the heart of
nationalism lies the belief that humanity is
separated into nations, and that nations are the Does not imagine to have the THE DYNASTIC REALMS Technology of
NATION
basis of independent sovereign states and the same boundaries or limits as
limits of humanity. It is imagined as a community as that of humanity challenged by Communications
it is always conceived as a deep, horizontal RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES
comradeship despite the odds of inequalities,
differences, and exploitation that exist and prevail. SOVEREIGN System of Production &
Over the years, two Cultural Systems that PRINT MEDIA Productive Relations
characterized the Medieval Times helped people Independent and creates its Socio-cultural Formation
identify themselves as groups: religious
communities (where people cosmically conceived own people which it considers
themselves as central through the medium of a as “citizens”
sacred language) and dynamic realms (in which it
was believed that a King or Queen had a Divine Right NATIONALISM PRINT
to rule). However, the upsurge of Print Media CAPITALISM Literature
challenged the existence of the aforementioned
cultural systems and eventually facilitated their
gradual wane as Print Media not only provide them a Narrative Structures
medium to express their dissents also provides a IMAGINED Print-Languages Printing Press Capitalist Marketplace
way for these thoughts to be mass disseminated to
create a large-scale conversation through which COMMUNITY
Supported the
common grievances and aspirations can be
discussed, and eventually led for the creation of NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS Integration of Self
the new “nation.” Print Capitalism and the and Nation
industries began to proliferate and posed its Deep, Horizontal
dominance that created homogenizing effects and Comradeship
all the vernaculars that were being spoken within a Created a Unified Field Gave Preference Gave a New Constituting the
region are considered as the root of nationalism. Nation through
And so people become literate that created a of Communication to Printed Fixity to
Imagination
unified field of communication and exchange, gave and Exchange Vernaculars Language
preference to printed, and fixates to unified Tombs of Unknown
language and field of communication and exchange Soldiers
between the author and the readers. Moreover,
print media was the foundation of the idea that Speakers of the Huge Certain Dialects were Helped Build
citizens pictured themselves as a unified nation Variety: Frenches, Closer and Dominated the Image of
that provided an economic answer to the demands National Their Final Forms
of consumers which later paved the way for Identities
Englishes, & Spanishes Antiquity
nationalism. Hence, print media paved the way for a
nation to preserve and access its culture and
history through which it wasn’t before its
existence. Formed the Embryo Elevated to a New Central to the
Identity Solidarity Society of the Nationally Politico-cultural Subjective Idea of
What is a Nation according to Benedict Anderson? What Imagined Community Eminence the Nation
constituted the nation?
What gave birth to the "nation"?
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How print capitalism paved the way for nationalism?

https://www.coursehero.com/file/108155028/Mind-Map-The-Nationpdf/ Reference: Anderson, B. (2006). Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso BENEDICT ANDERSON
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