Community Synthesis Essay

Communities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/ genuineness but by the style in which they are imagined. The nation is imagined as limited, sovereign and as a community because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail, the nation is conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. The possibility of imagining the nation only arose in history when, and where, three fundamental cultural conceptions, all of great time immemorial, lost their obvious grip on men’s minds. The first of this was the idea that a particular script-language offered privileged access to ontological truth, precisely because it was an inseparable part of that truth. Second was the belief that society was naturally organized around and under high centers-monarchs who were persons apart from other human beings and who ruled by some form of cosmological (divine) dispensation. Human loyalty were necessary hierarchical and centripetal because the ruler, liked the sacred script, was a node of access to being and inherent in it. Third, was a conception of temporarily in which cosmology and history were indistinguishable, the

They itemized the factors that influence a gentrifiers locational decision: firstly by the affordability of housing (economic pull), secondly gentrifiers enjoy neighborhood centrality (practical pull), the desire to live in a particular historic type of home (aesthetic pull), the proximity to amenities that enable them to make new social contacts (amenity pull), and some appreciate being immersed in diverse neighborhood (social pull),and lastly by an attachment to local history of a community-the desire to seek to preserve a heritage of which people are part of it (symbolic