Def. The feeling of being a part of a larger community in the form of a nation and identifying with national symbols such as flags, institutions, brands, foods and rituals
Formal legal category which derives from people belonging to a specific nation state
Involves certain duties such as obeying the law of the land
Anderson (1983)
A nation is an imagined community they will never meet most of their follow members so socially constructed through symbols such as a flag
Social construction was facilitated by development in printing technology leading to the mass circulation of newspaper and books
Kumar (2005)
Unlike Scottish people, the welsh and the Irish and English find it difficult to say what they are
English identity is exclusive
The long history of the English as an imperial people has developed a sense of missionary nationalism which is a sense of unity and empire has necessitated the repression