![]() ![]() ![]() As we all know, that led to such historical developments as the Protestant Reformation and, in Anderson’s construct, it led to a sense of communion with people who spoke the same language and shared the same ethnicity, a communion eventually codified in the Treaty of Westphalia and the formation of the nation-states of Europe. Which enabled people to read them and talk about them. Thar invention made possible the publication of The Bible and other books in the vernacular. In his definition, imagined communities are “socially-organized communities imagined by people who perceive themselves as part of that group.” He used the term to describe how nation-states were formed, prompted by the invention of the movable type printing press by Johannes von Gutenberg. ![]() “Imagined community” is a term coined by the late political scientist Benedict Anderson. How do you define in your own words an imagined community? In your keynote in Malibu, you mentioned about imagined community in reference to Wall Street that has people everywhere being part of it rather than just those stock brokers living in NYC. ![]()
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