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Marking difference from others, determining who does and does not belong to the imagined community, and policing its borders are undeniably central to the phenomenon of nationhood and homeland, but they are not the whole story. National identity is not simply a reaction against otherness. It is about the broader and more complex challenge of projecting a substantive sense of the collective self, the imagined national community, while surviving in the larger world, and the articulation of the nation’s relationship to specific places is absolutely central to this process.
(c)Z. S. Schwartz

UPD: turpat par identitātes un izvēlēto definējošo faktoru nozīmīgumu

And more fundamentally, the particular substance of identity discourses shapes people’s perceptions of their interests and visions of the future in important ways. National discourses cannot be dismissed as mere false consciousness, tools of elite manipulation, or functions of “objective” economic or institutional factors, as instrumentalist theories would have it. Discourses do not merely reflect but help define interests and meanings; they constitute perceptions of reality by making it hard to think outside their boundaries.