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What did Benedict Anderson argue in his book "Imagined Communities"?
What did Benedict Anderson argue in his book "Imagined Communities"?
- Nationality is a fixed identity.
- Nationalism is not an ideology. (correct)
- The nation is a recent political system in the world
- Liberalism and Marxism explain national phenomena
What did Anderson's work offer insights into?
What did Anderson's work offer insights into?
- The fixed identity of nationality.
- The failure of liberalism and Marxism.
- The predictability of governmental formats.
- The complexity of cultural systems such as the national one (correct)
What did Anderson show about the nation in his work?
What did Anderson show about the nation in his work?
- The nation is a predictable governmental format.
- The nation is a fixed identity.
- The nation is a recent political system in the world
- The nation is a complex cultural product that emerged and spread to become the current cultural and political system in the world (correct)
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- Benedict Anderson was a political scientist who studied at Cornell University.
- He wrote important pieces of Southeast Asian history in the "Cornell Paper."
- His magnum opus, "Imagined Communities," was published in 1983.
- Anderson argues that nationalism is not an ideology.
- Liberalism and Marxism fail to explain national phenomena.
- Nationality is contingent and constitutes us.
- The nation is a complex cultural product that emerged and spread to become the current cultural and political system in the world.
- Anderson shows how the nation emerged and was able to spread despite predictions that it would not last as a governmental format.
- The nation is in constant continuity and not a fixed identity.
- Anderson's work offers insights into the complexity of cultural systems such as the national one.
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