>>4310998The shared racial and national identity, bound together by flag and the cult of symbols, myth, tradition, language, and anything else birthed from the racial community, shows us a clear and continuing national legacy. One may argue that the nation itself, as a term, is recent, but the reality of a nation is simply something that has always existed. It is as though one looked at the color spectrum and declared it to be untrue merely because it was a human invention. We know, however, that color objectively exists, and the human framework laid atop it is merely the translation of reality into word.