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02 Rizal and the Theory of Nationalism
02 Individual Activity: Analysis Table- ARG
CUENCA, SOPHIA ANGELICA B.
BSTM 3.2 B
Title of the reading Summary (seven [7] sentences MAX)
Imagined Communities
Benedict Anderson used the concept of an
imagined community to explore nationalism in his
1983 book Imagined Communities. Anderson
portrays a nation as a socially created society
imagined by those who consider themselves to be
a member of it. Anderson cites three paradoxes:
first, historians' objective modernity of countries
vs. nationalists' subject antiquity, second, formal
universality as a sociocultural idea land, and third,
political strength as such nationalism vs. their
philosophical poverty and even incoherence.
Anderson uses the tombs of an unknown soldier as
a symbol of nationalism. Unknown soldiers' tombs
are either empty or include recognized remains,
but each nation with such memorials claims these
soldiers as their own. Regardless of the Unknown
Soldiers' true origins, these nations have
incorporated them into their imagined society.