national identity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnationalandidentity
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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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identity
noun
uk/aɪˈden.tə.ti/us/aɪˈden.t̬ə.t̬i/
a person's name and other facts about who ...
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(Definition ofnationalandidentityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofnational identity
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And what is their role in the construction of a multiculturalnationalidentity?
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He is not clear, for instance, on either what "nationalidentity" is or how it is formed.
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Such representation is at best weak, given the lack of a strongnationalidentitywithin these states.
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Increased dependence upon the centre, as well as a heightened sense of the border contributed to the development ofnationalidentity.
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The complexities ofnationalidentitybecame apparent during the war.
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Moreover, in so doing, they implicate through their rhetorical instability received notions of race, class, andnationalidentity.
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Representing him as a philosopher-ruler and patriarch associated him with thenationalidentity.
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Stability, in turn, requires a democracy to promote a sharednationalidentityto facilitate collective action.
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Nationality may provide people with their identities, but the issue ofnationalidentityand that of justice can perhaps be disentangled.
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However, they all represent threats to fluctuating notions ofnationalidentity.
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Internally caudillo warfare had set back any hopes of a trulynationalidentity.
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Thus, the establishment and delineation of economic and social rights were based on a geographically definednationalidentity.
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The live rock venue performance has been central to the construction ofnationalidentitywithin an industry dominated by multinational recording companies.
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Religious solidarity andnationalidentityare thus forced into exclusive paradigms, which do not recognise the different narratives within each ideology.
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He deployed concepts of nationalism andnationalidentityto purge poisonous outsiders.
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We then produced graphs in which this typical individual'snationalidentityand the value of ideology was allowed to vary.
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In a less overtly political arena, the cultural nationalists also helped set the terms for subsequent debates overnationalidentity.
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The issue of immigrant integration was now connected to larger concerns aboutnationalidentityin an era of globalisation and international migration.
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There was a growing demand to definenationalidentityand citizenship in order to prevent ' outsiders ' from voting and having access to land.
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The attempt to transcend particularism by replacing the idea ofnationalidentitywith the concept of liberal citizenship does not, therefore, succeed.
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