Nationalities create "imagined communities"
A. in reaction to colonial governments.
B. because most members of a nationality will never meet.
C. because they do not exist in real terms.
D. because they are comprised of many different ethnic groups and subcultures, and therefore they may disintegrate at any moment.
E. because the members of a nationality constantly compare their society to an idealized, quasi-historical past.
B
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