National Identity as an Ideological Construct

In the paper, we demonstrate that different types of communities related to the base group identification (kins, tribes, clans, peoples, ethnic groups, nationalities, nations) may be constructed products of ideological actions of local elites. This may well explain why in the modern times national identification undergoes the serious crisis. The principles of grouping the human beings changes due to tre-mendously increased Earth population, and ideological narratives creating these social groups, changed as well. The ideological nature of national identification provides satisfactory explanation of the shift from ideologies addressed to the national communities, to ideologies created for ‘everyday citizens.