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The Nation State

Benedict Anderson called the nation states "the imagined communities."  The Lebanese American historian William Haddad wrote: “The nation state is the prison of the mind.”  
"I’m not a very passionate republican – many things bother me more than the monarchy. But as principles go it is unwavering. We have a  class problem in Britain  and the monarchy exemplifies it. If it’s a guilty pleasure I’m after, I don’t turn to betrothals in real-world feudal dynasties: I have Netflix. The political scientist Benedict Anderson  described countries as imagined communities . Call me a misery guts, but I’d rather imagine one in which I am born a citizen, not a subject, and others are not born to govern me." "The royal wedding" Note: Imagined Communities is a seminal book. It is an essential reading.