a. What could be the concept of nation, according to three paradoxes?

In your opinion, what

each one paradox mean?

According to Anderson, the concept of the nation is an imagined political community -

and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. There are many things that should
be consider in defining the concept of nation. It is not that easy to clearly understand but
through these three paradoxes it will be much easier for us to understand.

The first paradox is the “objective modernity of nations to the historian’s eye vs. their
subjective antiquity in the eyes of the nationalist.” This paradox refers on how people
believe on their own nation’s ability and power. They think that they are more powerful
than the other nations.

The second paradox is the formal universality of nationality as a socio-cultural concept…”.

This paradox is the belief of the nationalists that every person must have a nationality like
Filipino, American or other group of people that have the same kinds.

The Third paradox or the final paradox is the “political power of nationalisms vs. their
philosophical poverty and even incoherence.” This paradox is from Anderson’s belief that
there are powerful political persons who are useless in nation, and yet we still adore those
persons. Nation is not just composed of high-class persons because the less fortunate
people in our society is also part of the Nation.

b. How can national be defined? Describe each characteristic.

c. Relate how the consciousness of nationalism originated?

d. How did print-languages lay the bases for nationalistic consciousness?

The print languages laid the bases for nationalistic consciousness by creating a unified
field of exchange and communication. Because of the increase of the capitalism on
the book markets the revolutionary of different vernacular language also increased
and it awaked the nationalistic consciousness of the community.

e. What are the roles of creole pioneers in the establishment nationalism?

The creole is a group of people who shared a common language and common
descent with those against who they fought. Their roles in establishing nationalism is that
they spread the ideas of the enlightenment to improve the trans-Atlantic communication
for the freedom. They also interchanged the documents which helped the nation to
create a unified apparatus of power which is the newspaper that infers the refraction of
world events into imagined world of vernacular readers.