Imagined community is a concept to help explain why people think they belong to group, Daomei. Why does someone living in Stuttgart and someone in New York still identify as German. Why do they think they share ancestry, etc. Religions are also imagined comunities. People will never meet, indeed they may be dead for hundreds if not thousands of years, but they are seen as belonging. You are being very materialistic in your ideas. The idea of imagined communities does not preclude or negate Marx or Weber. It can be used to compliment them. Imagined communities ARE REAL. Imagined is not apposed to 'real' but face-to-face. It is how people who may never meet can think they belong to a group.
Daomei I give up. I could explain this too you over a bottle of wine, but not over the forums.
Daomei I give up. I could explain this too you over a bottle of wine, but not over the forums.
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