national consciousness
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnationalandconsciousness
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national
adjective
uk/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/us/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/
relating to or typical of a whole country and its people, rather than to part of that country or to ...
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consciousness
noun[U]
uk/ˈkɒn.ʃəs.nəs/us/ˈkɑːn.ʃəs.nəs/
the state of understanding and ...
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(Definition ofnationalandconsciousnessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Tracing their contributions shows hownationalconsciousnesscan be discerned long before the ' nationalism ' classically exemplified in 1848 or sometimes ante-dated to 1707.
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Each author is also sensitive to the interplay between religious belief andnationalconsciousness.
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His "national identity" is, simply, the sum-not one that necessarily adds up-of all the forms ofnationalconsciousness.
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Yetnationalconsciousnesshas an unusual ability to impinge on everyday life, too, albeit in different ways.
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This was a period of growingnationalconsciousnessand a diminution of regional identities in his view.
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Musical genres of minorities, however, are shunned from thenationalconsciousness.
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Everyone is impressed by the ubiquity, persistence and intensity ofnationalconsciousnessat least in the modern period.
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Can one relate the development ofnationalconsciousnessto these phases of development in communications?
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After centuries of a shared history, these rules have left their marks on the deeper layers ofnationalconsciousness.
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The result was that he failed in both: he neither created anationalconsciousnessnor did he create a common historical memory.
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Faced with the apparently overwhelming emotional appeal and force ofnationalconsciousness, theorists have tended to lash out pretty wildly.
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Southern nationalism's ability to imagine itself, and to project anationalconsciousness, exclusive of the north, whilst simultaneously to appropriate pan-nationalist linguistic constructions, has been disarming.
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It could also be that 'the void' can no longer expressnationalconsciousness(as an artistic form would) when it operates like an organ of a physical body.
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The fact that members of the ruling elite or intelligentsia manifest national sentiment is not sufficient to establish thatnationalconsciousnesshas permeated the value-system of the masses.
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In the camps, the overall ideological features are no greater or less than in any other society that is attempting to create, reinforce and naturalise anationalconsciousness.
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It appears likely, then, that the national identity of the people directly involved in nation-wide communication increased much more during electoral campaigns than did thenationalconsciousnessof other people.
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They are not able to grapple with thenationalconsciousnessthat may have pre-dated the modern state or, in certain modern cases, has certainly subsisted without it.
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