The Importance Of National Identity

In today’s global society, national identity could be constructed according to various points. Fearson (1999) explained national identity is a definition, which demonstrates the membership, expected behaviours of the particular group, brings a special pride in a person, and they are changeless but socially resulting. Again, national identity is not only about citizenship, but also about parentage, birthplace, race and whether the person has accents to speak the dialectal language or not (McCrone & Bechhofer, 2010). For example, during one survey about the national identities that practiced in countries where there are many immigrants, respondents placed great importance on the accent, their origins and bloodline to accept other newcomers if

It has been also indicated that national identity generally is not a simple feeling that immigrants or travellers feel like staying in the country permanently, so that it is not easily obtainable, and settlers are supposed to own enough language capacity and religion reliability regarding to the state. The important points in national identities could change over the time depend on the number of immigrant populations and recent globalizations since as long as these percentage increase, the people’s requirement of accepting others with national distinction will be more diverse and at the same time narrower (Miller, 2000). Therefore, national identities naturally often contain lineage aspects, adaptation to the local community with accustoming the dialect, expected appearance such as skin colour but also about allegiance and

Similarly, this paper also emphasized sport or sporty population as Australian symbol (Bruce & Hallinan, 2001; Byrant, 2013). Another perspective is that two major Australian movies of “Australia” and “Rabbit-Proof Fence” demonstrated the wildness, wartime mate-ship and contested history of the nation as a pioneer with beautiful nature of rural Australia. Bush and Aborigine are undoubtedly identified as one of Australianism, which is the sacred symbol of local places in the nation, the resource of life and the location where symbol animals such as koalas and kangaroos settle down (Karanfilović, 2008). Thus, Australian identity, which influentially generated by media represents people are allowed to live under human rights in this country with satisfying equity, people are easy going and welcome, love sports and animals surrounded by great