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Nationalism

People exist independent of nations and society; however, neither a nation nor a society may exist without people. Nations are imaginings of a general populace and yet they have a profound effect on the way that the people who have created them live out their lives. People in a nation or society are incredibly different and yet because of their belonging to this imaginary group they are believed to be the same. This attempt at a distinction between being an individual and that individual being of the group creates a rift inside people between their own identity and that imposed upon them by the state and/or society.
Some of the greatest tensions faced by mankind are those faced within people themselves and those few people that they meet in their life. When looking at My Fair Lady, Eliza states, “The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves but how she is treated.” Society is no more than a set of interactions between people governed by written ...

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