... that the political and the national unit should be congruent."# In terms of citizenship, Gellner believes that citizenship rights were launched by the French Revolution, and that the unpleasant and degrading conditions of the proletariat brought about by the Industrial Revolution provided both opportunity and a motive for a growth of political consciousness, exemplified by the formation of organizations such as trade unions. Gellner emphasises ... "foreigner" as somebody who could not communicate with them and was thus isolated from their culture. In France, for example, translations we...

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... nationality and pride in the nation as a Caucasian German? How and what constitutes a nation? Was there a particular time when nationhood emerged and does the commonly held view that the 1789 French Revolution was the definitive moment for the emergence of nations as we know them today still hold to be true? Some my propose that a nation is little more than a set of ... the ever growing secular society and American influenced Canada the only real thing that keeps Quebecois as a separate nation is their passion and insistence for speaking and being educated in French . The anthropologist...

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