Nationalism is a comparatively recent phenomenon, probably born with the French Revolution, but despite its short history, it has been extremely important in forming the bonds that hold modern nations together. Today it operates alongside the legal structure and supplements the formal institutions of society in providing much of the cohesiveness and order necessary for the existence of the modern nation-state.

Human geography pertaining to nationalism focuses on the territorality of different forms of human activities, i.e. how these activities influence and are influenced by different geographical levels ranging from the l

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Countries with a medium level of human development (say with an HDI between 0.800 and 0.500), could add one supplementary indicator for each of the three categories of basic variables. In the survival/longevity category, for example, we can add under-5 (i.e. infant and child mortality); in the education category we could add secondary school enrolment; and income category we add the incidence of income poverty in the country. For countries with a "high" level of human development (say with an HDI value greater than 0.800), we could add a further supplementary indicator to the two already existing for each category in the medium human development group. In the survival (longevity) category, we could add the maternal mortality rate; in the education category, we could add tertiary enrolment; and in the income category, we could add the Gini-corrected mean national income (i.e. per capita GDP multiplied by (1-G)).

What is the role of language in constituting nationhood? Well as a society we have always felt a great sense of belonging when it comes to the languages we speak. Contiuing on my China town concept ; Although one might reside in China town downtown Vancouver one might still feel strong sense of nationalism for China as they go about there daily lives talking and interaction with others of the same language. However latley this issue has become controversial with the introduction as high speed "take" of the internet.worries are surfacing of there being one language that will now dominate the world; perticularly being english (see ** in works cited) Will language become a less defining factor in nationalism as communications technologies

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