Imagined_communities

Anderson sees nationalims as a cultural artifact.

p. 6/7 Imagined in the sense of creation. You will never know or come into a large portion of your ‘nation’. He contrasts this with ‘falseness’ in the derogatory way as all communities larger than ones family are essentially imagined.

The ‘emblem of freedom’ is the sovereign state, as the concept of nationalism was born in the age of enlightenment and dissociation from God.

Anderson poses that nationalism arises culturally out of two regimes, the religious and the dynastic.