The nation is imagined as limited because even the largest of them,encompassing perhaps a billion living human beings, has finite, if elastic,boundaries, beyond which lie other nations.
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AllthatIcan findtosayisthataaexistswhenasignificantnuimberofpeopleinacommunityconsider themselvesformanation,orbehaveasiftheyformedone.
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nthiswayheimpliesthat‘true’communitiesexistwhichcanbeadvantageously juxtaposedtonations,Infact,allcommunitieslargerthanprimordialvillages offace-to-face contact(andperhapseekthese)areimagined.Communitiesaretobedistinguished, notbytheir falsity/genuineness,butbythe styleinwhichtheymeeima.gined.
gellner- nation vs community
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nation:itisanimaginedpoliticalcommunity—andimaginedasbothinherentlylimited andsovereign.
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the irremediableparticularity of its concrete manifestations, such that, by definition,‘Greek’ nationality is sui generis.
sui géneris. Loc. lat. que significa literalmente ‘de su género o especie’. Se emplea con el sentido de ‘singular o peculiar’: «Tenía un humor muy sui géneris» (Arrabal Torre [Esp. 1982]). La pronunciación corriente en español es [sui-jéneris]. Debe evitarse la pronunciación [sui-yéneris].
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