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The burgeoning presence of Diaspora across the world historical particulars. The need for a cultural identity
has triggered a new consideration of the cultural which is more transnational in its essence has been
theories of nation, identity and international affairs. In a recognised for many years.. At the beginning of the
preliminary definition, nationalism could be understood twentieth century, the American intellectual Randolph
as a devotion to one’s nation or a policy of national Bourne wrote an article entitled 'Trans-National
'Trans
independence. In other words the concepts nationalism America". To Bourne, ‘melting pot’ metaphor is no
and nationality are preceded from the very existence of longer useful and practical and he urges his readers to
a nation and a sentiment ment or belief that produces reject it, which he says
ays will result in a culture that is
devotion to and identification with the nation. It can "washed out into a tasteless, colorless fluid of
also be said that nation is the gravity centre upon which uniformity" (1736): he dreams instead of a world in
a sort of national identity or nationality is founded. In a which a variety of cultures co-exist,
co "inextricably
broader analysis, nationality can be seen as the disti
distinct mingled, yet not homogeneous. They merge but they do
characteristic features of a group of people, closely not fuse" (1737).
737). In the past, notions of the American
associated with each other by common descent, "melting pot" have been set in opposition to those of
language or history. However they are usually the Canadian "mosaic"; however, the "mosaic"
organized as a separate political state and occupying a metaphor, too, is increasingly being replaced by ideas
definite territory. Benedict Anderson goes beyond this concerned with hybridity and multiculturalism.
idea when he says a nation can be an “imagined
political community” that is a subjective state of mind. The discussions
ions on the construction of transnational
In terms of psychology, as Walker Cannor put forward, space and identity of the diaspora points out the
the essence of the nation is a psychological bond that requisites of what is called transnational empathy
unites the people. However the nature or sources of which is of growing demand in the dynamic cross
such bond remain obscure emotional rather than cultural interactions of the globalized world. Empathy
rational. From a more anthropological perspective Max is the capacity
pacity to recognize, acknowledge and identify
Weber speaks of ethnic group formed on the belief of what the other person thinks, feels and perceives. The
common descent explains that a sense of affinity to a origin of the word empathy can be traced back to the
particular nation relies on the qualitative
alitative degree of the Greek word empatheia meaning physical affection and
belief in common nationality. passion. The first use of the equivalent word of
empathy
mpathy seems to be found in the usge of a German
Every nation socialises its subjects differently as they word by Hermann Lotze and Robert Vischer meaning
have different cultural backgrounds and value systems ‘feeling into’. The term was later translated in to
As a result of the large scale migration, there is a English as ‘Empathy’ by Edward B. Titchenerr. Inter
tendency to emerge a globalised cultu culture whose personal empathy is directly proportional to the
challenge is to combat with the heterogeneous societies similarities
arities in the living condition, culture, education,
who do not completely leave aside their cultural and the family back ground etc. Naturally there exists a
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