Imagined communities; puppies
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“Theorists of nationalism have often been perplexed [by]… the formal universality of nationality as a socio-cultural concept—in the modern world everyone can, should, will ‘have’ a nationality, as he or she ‘has’ a gender—vs. the irremediable particularity of its concrete manifestations, such that, by definition, ‘Greek’ nationality is sui generis…”
Benedict Anderson, Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
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