One event which symbolises the start of this process is Martin Luther’s 1517 presentation of his religious views in German rather than Latin, and it was in the region around today’s Germany and also England that the first national languages were produced. The origin of nationsĪnderson argued that the first European nation states were formed with the emergence of national print languages, in the early to mid 16th century, shortly after capitalist entrepreneurs started producing mass print runs of books in national languages rather than the more elitist Latin. The nation is a social construction: it exists in as far as the people who perceive themselves as part of it imagine it. It is sovereign because nations claim political independence and the right to self-governance on the part of the people who belong to them.No nation claims to include all of humanity. It is limited because nations include some people and exclude others.It is imagined because most members of even the smallest nations never meet most other members, yet they feel like they belong to the same community.There are three defining characteristics of a nation: The nation as a positive source of identityīenedict Anderson (1983) defines a nation as an imagined political community: imagined both as inherently limited and sovereign.The difference between racism and nationalism.
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