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> Stop making up silly, false, fake identities. I think this is an unnecessarily negative framing. All national and regional identities are mostly socially con
by alexhutcheson 7y ago
> Stop making up silly, false, fake identities.
I think this is an unnecessarily negative framing. All national and regional identities are mostly socially constructed "imagined communities"[1].
For example, most Americans aren't descended from colonial settlers, but they still identify with the colonists when they read about or discuss the Revolutionary War.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagined_community https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagined_community
- adger 7y agoI would go further than say it is an unnecessarily negative framing, this idea always seemed pretentious to me, nowadays it seems supressive. Are they really imagined? Or is this idea mostly a "social contruct" that is not really accepted as reality outside of a few "intellectuals". They seem to be describing their delusions of grandeur. Is it not them that have the problem?