collective memory

Title: collective memory
Category: History
Details: Words: 370 | Pages: 1.6 (approximately 235 words/page)

collective memory

Anthony D. Smith who wrote “National Identity and Myths of Ethnic Descent” discussed how myths are formed and how they can lead to the ethnic regeneration within a group of people. He associated his ideas on ethnic regeneration with the countries of Turkey, Greece, England, France, and Israel. His ideas clearly outlined the steps that are taken to regenerate when people are influence by myths created sometimes thousands of years ago in such cases as …showed first 75 words of 370 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 370 total…in 1948. Vladimir Jabotinsky states that Nationalism is a “supreme value” and there is no higher value than “the nation and the fatherland”. I agree with this statement because in Israel’s case, Jews had a strong sense of nationalism and as a result it led them to fight for their nation and fatherland. Without the strong nationalistic views of thousands of Jews the goal of creating the nation-state of Israel would not have been reached.

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