Official nationalism is a copyable state-serving policy with a Janus-headed legacy

Evidence

Much the same is true of nationalism. Contemporary nationalism is the heir to two centuries of historic change. For all the reasons that I have attempted to sketch out, the legacies are truly Janus-headed. For the legators include not only San Martín and Garibaldi, but Uvarov and Macaulay. As we have seen, ‘official nationalism’ was from the start a conscious, self-protective policy, intimately linked to the preservation of imperial-dynastic interests. But once ‘out there for all to see,’ it was as copyable as Prussia’s early-nineteenth-century military reforms, and by the same variety of political and social systems. The one persistent feature of this style of nationalism was, and is, that it is official – i.e. something emanating from the state, and serving the interests of the state first and foremost. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 625

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘official nationalism’ as emanating from and serving the state — core distinction vocabulary distinguishing it from popular nationalism.
• XREF: The state-serving, top-down nationalism definition scaffolds later readings on how state apparatuses manufacture national/religious identities for control. — connects to: Victoria’s imperial title exemplifies official nationalism’s fusion of nation and empire — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 353; Official nationalism serves threatened ruling classes, not great powers alone — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 380; Once a national-state model exists, even reactionary nationalisms must adopt populist standards — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 314 (+6 more)

Related

• Once a national-state model exists, even reactionary nationalisms must adopt populist standards (similarity 0.85)
• Revolutionary regimes retroactively adopt dynastic national identities as state power (similarity 0.84)
• Nationalism could be consciously modeled and pirated once visible predecessors existed. (similarity 0.84)
• Official nationalism serves threatened ruling classes, not great powers alone (similarity 0.84)
• Official nationalism is a reactive response to earlier popular national movements (similarity 0.82)
• Nationalism must be read against prior cultural systems, not political ideologies (similarity 0.81)
• Post-colonial nations blend popular and official nationalism as ongoing projects (similarity 0.79)
• Nationalism can only be judged through its particular instances, not abstraction (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial nationalists copied and adapted European national models (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Nationalism could be consciously modeled and pirated once visible predecessors existed. #corroborates (0.95) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 284
• Official nationalism is a reactive response to earlier popular national movements #expands (0.85) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 348
• Once a national-state model exists, even reactionary nationalisms must adopt populist standards #expands (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 314
• Revolutionary regimes retroactively adopt dynastic national identities as state power #exemplifies (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 627
• The colonized colonizer duality gave Egyptian nationalists a Janus-like worldview #complicates (0.72)
• Egyptian nationalists held a Janus-faced worldview of being colonized yet colonizing. #complicates (0.72)