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Originally Posted by lunulae
national identities can never be true or genuine, since they were created as a consequence of the national romanticism in the 19th century.
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Actually, 19th century so-called romantic nationalism is just a one --and often flawed-- interpretation of national identities.
National identities arise through a long process of evolution, departing from a primitive concept of race, moving upwards to tribes and other forms of human social interaction and, eventually, converging in a process of ethnogenesis in which various elements are present, at which point the evolutionary process takes a more paced motion due to stability (which also implies that nations are not static in absolute terms, but they follow a stable dynamic of evolution). The process is too long and complex to be constructed.
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hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
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