Question

Anthropological research reveals that most ethnic groups and nations are recent historical creations, our connection to people within 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
(b)- genocidal
(c)- diasporas
(d)- ancient tribes

Answer 1

The correct answer is letter "A": imagined communities.

Step-by-step explanation:

Imagined communities is a term coined by Benedict Anderson -"Imagined Communities" (1983), aimed to describe that the concept of a nation is nothing more by the creation of the people who consider themselves part of it. According to Anderson a nation is imagined -yet not fictional, because all its members will never know, meet or even hear of each other still in their minds lives the image of their communion. Besides, they have similar interests or identities as part of the same nation.