Jun 3 2012: Nationalism or feelings of national identity must flow from governmental will and be viewed as an educational priority. In countries with limited resources for public education or where factional politics or religious belief systems supercede any such identity, national identity will remain illusive. Where even modest resources are available, national identity can become contrived, i.e., dictated by external threats, regional and socio-political factionalism, or the efforts of a dilligent yet effective press which does not serve the broad range of political viewpoints. Countries having neither effective education systems nor a free press as politicizing agents must first seek to establish governing institutions which foreswear ethnic and personal allegiances. .
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