What do you understand by nationalism? Describe the basic characteristics of national identity

Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation as in a group of people, especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining the nation's sovereignty self-governance over its homeland. Nationalism holds that each nation should govern itself, free from outside interference self-determination, that a nation is a natural and ideal basis for a polity and that the nation is the only rightful source of political power popular sovereignty.

It further aims to build and maintain a single national identity, based on shared social characteristics of culture, ethnicity, geographic location, language, politics or the government, religion, traditions and belief in a shared singular history, and to promote national unity or solidarity. Political scientists describe such nations as “imagined communities” and nationalism as an “invented tradition” in which shared sentiment provides a form of collective identity and binds individuals together in political solidarity. A nation's foundational "story" may be built around a combination of ethnic ________ _________ ____ ____ ___ __________ _________ _______ _______ ___ _________ _______.
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