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UON

University Of the Nations

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FNBC

Four Nations Beef Conference

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PONY

Protecting Our Nations Youth

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WCTN

With Christ To Nations

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CINCUNC

Commander IN Chief United Nations Command

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LSN

League Of Sovereign Nations

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UNP

Universal Nations Preventers

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BINAS

Biosafety Information Network and Advisory Service (of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization)

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SMUN

Soviet Mission to the United Nations

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NMFC

Nations Motor Freight Classification

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AFN

Alliance of Free Nations

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UNITY

United Nations In The Youth

Governmental » United Nations

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UNV

The United Nations Of Vexillium

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UNAIDS

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/ Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Governmental » United Nations

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UNCLE

United Nations Control For Law And Enforcement

Governmental » United Nations

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NBM

Nations Balanced Target Material Fund

Business » NYSE Symbols

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AFN

American First Nations

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NBCFO

Nations Bank, N. A. of South Carolina

Business » NASDAQ Symbols

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PUN

Pokemon United Nations

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ECOSOC

Committee of Experts On the Transport of Dangerous Goods of the United Nations Economic and Social Council

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UNDRO

United Nations Drought Response Organization

Governmental » United Nations

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NMUN-DC

National Model United Nations - District of Columbia

Governmental » United Nations

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UNAVEM III

United Nations Angola Verification Mission III

Governmental » United Nations

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USAUNHCR

United States Association for United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees

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UNAVEM II

United Nations Angola Verification Mission II

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What does Nations mean?

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A nation is a community of people formed on the basis of a combination of shared features such as language, history, ethnicity, culture and/or society. A nation is thus the collective identity of a group of people understood as defined by those features. Some nations are equated with ethnic groups (see ethnic nationalism) and some are equated with affiliation to a social and political constitution (see civic nationalism and multiculturalism). A nation is generally more overtly political than an ethnic group. A nation has also been defined as a cultural-political community that has become conscious of its autonomy, unity and particular interests.The consensus among scholars is that nations are socially constructed and historically contingent. Throughout history, people have had an attachment to their kin group and traditions, territorial authorities and their homeland, but nationalism – the belief that state and nation should align as a nation state – did not become a prominent ideology until the end of the 18th century. There are three notable perspectives on how nations developed. Primordialism (perennialism), which reflects popular conceptions of nationalism but has largely fallen out of favour among academics, proposes that there have always been nations and that nationalism is a natural phenomenon. Ethnosymbolism explains nationalism as a dynamic, evolving phenomenon and stresses the importance of symbols, myths and traditions in the development of nations and nationalism. Modernization theory, which has superseded primordialism as the dominant explanation of nationalism, adopts a constructivist approach and proposes that nationalism emerged due to processes of modernization, such as industrialization, urbanization, and mass education, which made national consciousness possible.Proponents of modernization theory describe nations as "imagined communities", a term coined by Benedict Anderson. A nation is an imagined community in the sense that the material conditions exist for imagining extended and shared connections and that it is objectively impersonal, even if each individual in the nation experiences themselves as subjectively part of an embodied unity with others. For the most part, members of a nation remain strangers to each other and will likely never meet. Nationalism is consequently seen 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 attributes, values and principles, and may be closely connected to narratives of belonging.

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