National culture is a discourse constructing identities through stories and images

Evidence

National cultures, then, are composed not only of cultural institutions, but in addition of symbols and representations. A national culture is a discourse. It is a way of constructing meanings which influences and organizes both our actions and our conceptions of our selves. National cultures construct identities by producing meanings about “the nation” with which we can identify: these are contained in the stories which are told about it, memories which connect its present with its past, and images which are constructed of it. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 123

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines national culture as discourse and specifies its machinery: stories, memories connecting present to past, constructed images.
• XREF: The ‘national culture as discourse’ framing maps onto Stuart Hall’s encoding/decoding and the constructivist view of race the vault already deploys. — connects to: Taken-for-granted cultural narratives exert the most power — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 143
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 123