Answer:
It is the sense of "a nation as a cohesive whole, as represented by distinctive traditions, culture, and language." National identity may refer to the subjective feeling one shares with a group of people about a nation, regardless of one's legal citizenship status
<span>German and French are the most spoken
and aprox... 390,000 people worldwide speak Luxembourgish.
Luxembourgish is also spoken in small parts of the surrounding countries of Belgium (in the Province of Luxembourg near Arlon), France (in small parts of the Lorraine) and Germany (around Bitburg and Trier). In Germany and Lorraine it is simply considered the local German dialect. Since the Second World War, however, the language has not been taught in these countries, with the result that use of Luxembourgish is largely restricted to the older generations.
Furthermore, the language is spoken by a few descendants of Luxembourg immigrants in the United States, and a closely related variety is spoken by ethnic Germans long settled in Transylvania, Romania (Siebenbürgen). </span>
<span>The answer is definitely C. The
Midwestern United States is an example of a vernacular region. Indeed, the
Midwestern has been generally acquainted and explained by both travelers and
habitants quite mistakenly (most of them characterize the region as some little
town and so on). Moreover, the vernacular element can also be found by paying
attention to the emotional charges these people display while talking about the
Midwestern (most of them knows everybody in town and they have still ongoing
things with some of the city residents). </span>
I assume that the question refers to the political affiliation of the Islands (They are Islands in the Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean, south of Japan) - they are politically linked to the US - the correct answer is a). For example the Mariana islands have a commonwealth status within the US.
