Defining the Concept of national Identity in Post Modern Society

Keywords

National Identity, Postmodern Society, Nation, Nationalism, Cosmopolitan Society, Multiple National Identity, Trans-Nationalist, Global Civil Society.

Abstract

The concept of national identity is closely related to the terms nation, nationalism and citizenship. Within the boundaries elimination impacted by globalization in today’s society, the nation-state is no longer the singular unit of political power with absolute sovereignty. The nation will unconsciously adopt an external culture, language or paradigm. Moreover, the external factors will impact to the concept of the nation. Due to the changes, the notion of national identity is said to need re-conceptualization. The common understanding that the modernist premises of the national state have been eroded; the concept of citizenship that has had a long symbiotic existence with the nation state also needs to be rethought. Moreover, cosmopolitanism is mentioned to represent a logical accommodation of the postmodern challenges to citizenship. The number of social contacts with foreigners will contribute more to an increased awareness of the society’s national identity or cultural diversity that offered a contribution to a realization of us being cosmopolitan. Consequently, the individual’s identity then becomes multiple and transnationalist, in that it promotes an active citizenry that is empowered within a global civil society.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Perdini Idola Putri
AU  - Ellisha Nasruddin
AU  - Juliana Abdul Wahab
PY  - 2017/11
DA  - 2017/11
TI  - Defining the Concept of national Identity in Post Modern Society
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Transformation in Communications 2017 (IcoTiC 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 175
EP  - 180
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25902389
ID  - Putri2017/11
ER  -