According to Benedict Anderson, how did 'the 19th-century people start to acquire a "we feeling"?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
f belonging or ‘we
feeling’. The well known
scholar Benedict Anderson
has thus argued that this
helped the growth of
nationalism, the feeling that
people who did not even
know of each other’s existence feel like members of a family. It gave people who
would never meet each other a sense of togetherness. Anderson thus suggested
that we could think of the nation as an ‘imagined community