Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject History of Germany - 1848, Empire, Imperialism, grade: 85.5, Westminster College, course: Empire and Resistance, language: English, abstract: National Identity is a term used to depict a person or group of people that, according to Benedict Anderson in his book 'Imagined Communities', can be organized and expressed into four classifications of nationalism. The use of national identity has varied over the centuries and has been expressed differently by people in different geographical regions under varying circumstances, such as race, religion, geography and location of one s community, language, distinct physical characteristics, or even who happens to be the ruling class.

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject History of Germany - 1848, Empire, Imperialism, grade: 85.5, Westminster College, course: Empire and Resistance, language: English, abstract: National Identity is a term used to depict a person or group of people that, according to Benedict Anderson in his book 'Imagined Communities', can be organized and expressed into four classifications of nationalism. The use of national identity has varied over the centuries and has been expressed differently by people in different geographical regions under varying circumstances, such as race, religion, geography and location of one s community, language, distinct physical characteristics, or even who happens to be the ruling class.