Blog Post One: National Identity in Austria
National Identity, Defined The term “national identity” has recently become quite a strong term. It’s so easy to confuse it with “stereotype”, a dangerous idea considering the two are so different. If someone tells you they’re British, German, French, etc, you’ll immediately find you have predisposed ideas about that person, just from learning their nationality. I’d like to explore this idea, explore what it is that makes up these ideals. Are there common threads between different national identities, or a factor that all national identities have? Is a national identity an acceptable way to generalize a country? These are questions I will hopefully try to answer in not only this post, but also in my future posts on this blog. In this post, we will be taking a dive into the national identity of Austria. First however, we should define national identity. A national identity is the combination of aspects and attributes that give a national population a distinctly unique identity....