Nationality Versus National Identity
National identity is a person's subjective sense of belonging to one state or to one nation. A person may be a national of a state, in the sense of having a formal legal relationship with it, without subjectively or emotionally feeling a part of that state. Conversely, a person may feel like he belongs to one state without having any legal relationship to it.
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Famous quotes containing the words nationality, national and/or identity:
“If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)
“A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)