A band in Greenville, SC sets out to break a world record for the longest marathon playing mandolin. Therefore, the concept of imagined community assumes that nations, national identities, and nationalism are socially constructed “imagined” in this context then does not mean false, but instead points to the socio-cognitive element in the construction of the nation. How to Break a World Record: Directed by Dan Johnson, Andrew P. The nation is defined as a community because “regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship” (p. Indeed, Anderson famously defines the nation as imagined “because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion” (p. This course examines the formation of the Chinese nation by focusing on three regions that lie on.

One neighbourhood can be sacrificed in the name of urban development, and these developments are not about citizenship. A paradox of the modern age is that although many feel that the nation is our natural community, we do not know the vast majority of the other people who constitute this group. GLBL 290: The Chinese Nation as an Imagined Community. The imagination of Jakarta as a community of citizens seems to come down to the communion of identity card holders who may not know the conditions of other neighbourhoods. Anderson addresses a number of central sociological issues associated with belonging and cultural communities. Imagined communities is a term coined by Benedict Anderson (1983) in an influential book on the emergence and persistence of the nation.

An imagined community