Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Ideology


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The dominant group in any nation state often resorts to nostalgia, to mental or cultural ellipses, and to general forgetfulness in search of meanings and definitions that serve its own ideological needs of the moment.

Amritjit Singh, Joseph T. Skerrett Jr., and Robert E. Hogan, Introduction to Memory and Cultural Politics

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