Postcolonial leaders of the 20th Century clearly demonstrated that national identities are socially constructed by __________
a. taking over other former colonies and socializing citizens, often by force, to think of themselves as belonging to another country
b. using them in an instrumental fashion, strictly to gain legitimacy and power on the world stage
c. arguing that they could make nations out of often disparate peoples by using the same state machinery used by their former colonizers
d. instituting successful programs to ‘Europeanize’ their populations
Answer: C
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