This document discusses different aspects of citizenship. It explores what citizenship means and how it can be defined in various ways such as a title, identity, guarantee of rights, or bond of obligation. It also discusses the tension between seeing citizens as belonging to a homogenous national culture versus a heterogeneous, private identity. The document examines how national culture can generate feelings of patriotism by replacing individual memories with shared political experiences. It defines the public as referring to a common understanding and shared identity among citizens. Finally, it provides a definition of the nation as an imagined political community where members identify with fellow citizens they will never meet.
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