Sense of National Identity and the Success of a Nation
When our sports-persons win and our national anthem is played don’t we struggle to hold back our tears? How do we get this feeling? Do our parents, relatives and other people around us keep giving us lectures about nationalism all the time? I don’t think so? Who has the time? In fact we keep lamenting all the time about the problems that India faces as a developing country. We see garbage everywhere, poor sanitation, shortage of water, load shedding, corruption, bad roads, rising crime etc. Yet, despite all this, we love this imperfect country and want to do something for this great nation. This, is the result of our nationality or national identity. A nation is a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, language, inhabiting a particular country or territory. Nationality on the other hand, means the membership of a nation. According to definition, nationality can be acquired by being born within the jurisdiction of a ...