The local resists globalization from within, with no fixed political content

Evidence

We can summarize the conclusions to be drawn from the argument thus far by saying that the convergence of capitalism and print technology on the fatal diversity of human language created the possibility of a new form of imagined community, which in its basic morphology set the stage for the modern nation. The potential stretch of these communities was inherently limited, and, at the same time, bore none but the most fortuitous relationship to existing political boundaries (which were, on the whole, the highwater marks of dynastic expansionisms). — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 191 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: National communities bore no determined relation to existing political borders — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 191

Related

• National communities bore no determined relation to existing political borders (similarity 0.90)
• Print-capitalism made the nation imaginable through production, technology, and linguistic diversity (similarity 0.84)
• Material interests and Enlightenment ideas alone could not shape nationalist imagined communities. (similarity 0.83)
• Print-capitalism, not colonial administration, made nations imaginable (similarity 0.82)
• Print-languages made mutually unintelligible dialects into unified national communities (similarity 0.81)
• Material interests and ideologies cannot by themselves shape imagined communities (similarity 0.81)
• Nationalism emerged from printed shared narratives, not shared acquaintance (similarity 0.80)
• Print created unified language-fields where unrelated speakers understood each other (similarity 0.79)
• Imagined communities emerge from capitalism, print, and linguistic diversity (similarity 0.79)
• Geographic isolation limited the imagined simultaneity needed for continent-wide nationalism. (similarity 0.79)
• Print capitalism’s sacral-vernacular split enabled nationalist imagination (similarity 0.79)
• All communities are imagined, differing only in style, not genuineness. (similarity 0.79)
• Technological and print-capitalism advances enabled imagining parallel lives across oceans (similarity 0.78)
• Novels and newspapers supplied the technical means to imagine the nation (similarity 0.78)
• Print alone is not revolutionary; capitalism is the decisive factor. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• National communities bore no determined relation to existing political borders #expands (0.78) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 191