Anderson quotes

1.  Anderson argues that nationalism can be instilled into another person because nationalism is not one singular characteristic but instead the grouping of many different aspects.  These 'modulars' are "capable of being transplanted, with varying degrees of self-consciousness, to a great variety of social terrains, to merge and be merged with..." (4).  The outcome of merging the old and new facets of  ones views creates a more cohesive bond throughout a large group of people because they are linked on many differing levels.

2. A nation is only an imagined political community according to Anderson.  "It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion," Anderson states(6).  This idea shows his belief that without even knowing or just knowing of someone there is an overlying bond that holds them together in their shared nation.