A society's culture consists of whatever it is one has to know or believe in order to operate in a manner acceptable to its members. Culture is not a material phenomenon; it does not consist of things, people, behaviour or emotions. It is rather an organization of things. It is the form of things that people have in mind, their models for percieving, relating, and otherwise interpreting them_
W. Goodenough, 1957
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Thursday, 13 September 2007
Wednesday, 12 September 2007
NaTioNaLiSm Structuring Influence and Emotional Power in the Modern World
Nationalism is not only a matter of politics, but of culture and personal identity.
The discourse of nations is couched especially in terms of passion and identification_
Nationalism has emotional power partely because it helps to make us who we are, inspires artists and composers and give us a link with history, and thus with immortality_
The discourse of nations is couched especially in terms of passion and identification_
Nationalism has emotional power partely because it helps to make us who we are, inspires artists and composers and give us a link with history, and thus with immortality_
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