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...accounts and the sense of humanity's dreadful fragility, Arlen realizes that the "I" has become part of "them," that "to be an Armenian has meant that one has been compelled by circumstance to rise above or fall below -or, anyway, to skirt-these so-called imperatives of nationhood and property, and thus has been free to attempt the struggle of an ordinary life, and to dream more modern dreams, and to try to deal with one's dreams as best one could." It is a faith without dogma, a final belief that "there is a good chance...
...following TIME Bicentennial Essay is the first in a series that will appear periodically into early 1976, and will seek to answer those questions. The opening essay examines the nature of American nationhood: how we evolved from "these United States" into 'the United States"-one nation, indivisible...
Looking back from the late 20th century, it is easy for us to forget that our nation was really born in a War for Independence and not in a war for nationhood. Yet that is the crucial fact about American nationalism, and helps us understand how this nation could be born without ever having been conceived...
Oppressed peoples have often turned to violence as the first step in their fight for nationhood. If it were not for the guerrilla war carried out by the Irish Republican Army, for example, the Republic of Ireland might never have gained its independence. The unsavory reputation of the I.R.A. did not prevent its onetime leader, Sean MacBride, from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize last month for his subsequent crusade for human justice in Amnesty International...
...Palestinians, Poet Mahmoud Darweesh once wrote, are a people who have "no homeland, no flag and no address." But they do have a strong sense of nationhood. Even children who have never been there talk vividly about life in the Old City of Jerusalem or the beauty of Mount Carmel and the orange groves of Jaffa. In part, the Palestinians' collective memory of homeland and the dream of return are kept alive by a large body of nostalgic Arabic poetry, written by angry young lyricists who know both the harshness of Israeli prisons and the despair of life...