Eric John Earnest Hobsbaum (British Marxist historian and author) defines a nation as "one of many traditions 'invented' by political elites in order to legitimise their power in a century of revolution and democratisation".
A nation is characterised first and foremost by its traditions. Most of a nations traditions are derived from its history which includes value systems, religions and practices. The rest of a nations traditions are man - made, solely for political reasons, to (as they claim) unify the people of the nation and breed feelings of patriotism.
Phylogeny refers to the evolutionary history of a group of organisms. In this case i am attempting to "blog" about the evolution of social values, norms and sentiments of us, as indians and global citizens, hence the phrase "Social Phylogeny".
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Thursday, April 12, 2007
Social Phylogeny
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I don't feel patriotric ..I always feel this :
ReplyDelete"Why can't I have the whole world to myself?"
And also the mention of the world "organisms" was nice..
Yes cos.. nowadays..Only humans are considered as if nothing else exists beyond us..
Actually Its nice to get the "humans" included with every other thing that exists in this planet..