![]() And they are sovereign because nobody is able to claim authority over this community”. These communities can be considered imagined “as both limited and sovereign”, they are limited by “boundaries, beyond which lie other nations” (Anderson, 1991, 6). A nation from the Anderson’s point of view is imagined as its members will never know major part of their fellow-members, hear of them or meet them, however each of them recognize belonging to their community. However, the members hold some mental image of affinity in minds - for instance, people feel the nationhood with the other members of nation participating in a large event of a separate “imagined community” (Anderson, 1991, 6). This community differs much from a factual one as it is based, not on regular face-to-face interaction of the members of this community. Anderson gave a new definition of nation he defines it like “an imagined political community imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign” (Anderson, 1991, 6). ![]()
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