Anthropological research reveals that most ethnic groups and nations are recent historical creations, our connection to people w
ithin these groups is relatively new, and our shared traditions are recently invented. In addition, most members will never meet each other. This allows us to observe that most nations today are what? a. imagined communities
Most nations today have little more in common than a collection of traditions that are often no more than a few thousands years old. Even in the case that they are older, the constant transformation of habits and practices and the great amount of intercultural exchange lends a great deal of superficiality to the idea of a nation.
Therefore, a nation is a relatively new imagined community that depends in large part on being sustained within the consciousness of each individual member.
