In Anderson's essay "Imagined Communities" explains the presence of non-physical communities, but communities that exist in the mind set of the public. These communities relate to various catergories such as race and politics. Catergories such as these affect the nation and cause Anderson to propose her own definition of what is a nation.
"...it is an imagined political community- and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign."
Anderson is explaining though millions of people coexist in the same political structure, members of a nations government will nevewr know everybody personally. Instead of the individual, politics has lead to view society in large numbers and groups because finding similar traits and opinions in groups will cover all individuals. Thus this imagined community of individuals has changed into a community of groups.
Along with politics, race is one of the biggest categories (communities) because this nation thrives on its diversity. Anderson explains that race has been a big benefit to this growing nation we live in. It fuses people from different backgrounds and introduces a different aspect to life such as languages and songs. Nationalism has been the area where this diverse "melting pot" has produce several things such as Anderson explains in this quote.
"The cultural products of nationalism- poetry, prose fiction, music, plastic arts- show this love very clearly in thousands of different forms and styles."
Through national anthems, art and other sub groups that define a culture, these imaginative communities of people defined by politics tend to morph with each other because of the understanding and accepting attitudes of the public.
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