Common Themes
             I. The most salient common theme, running through all three sections, is
             the divergence between the way colonial powers view nationalism, and the
             way the conquered nations view it, if they view it at all.
             A. For the first part of a colonial period, the indigenous
             population is often unaware it is being considered a nation; it is still
             operating under a more organic system in which things are not enumerated
             and particularizes; in which places are not located according to scientific
             principles, and; in which the artifacts' used by a conquering nation to
             display the national' character of the colony are reduced to logos.
             B. Later in the colonial period, the indigenous people may separate
             into two groups, the nationalists,' or those who militate against the
             colonizer and the colonizer's ways, and nationalists who have subscribed to
             the colonizer's ways and take pride in a new national identity, supplied by
             the colonizer.
             II. The second most common theme revolves around the way a colonizer
             creates' national identity by defining it, particularizing it, and then
             extolling it in a denatured form.
             A. First, a colonizer attempts to define the characteristics of a
             nation' on the basis of ethnicity, but that ethnicity might be based on
             parameters of the colonizer's own, and not on any identity the colonized
             people would recognize. The colonizer might also mistake religious
             attributes for others, also leading to the result that the natives would
             not recognize themselves.
             B. Second, the colonizer creates maps. On these, he can locate the
             ethnic groups already identified. To the colonizer, this makes the area
             into a cohesive nation; very possibly the opposite could be said of the
             colonized.
             C. Third, the colonizer makes representations for show of artifacts
             that were, before colonization, very real and active parts of life to the
             indigenous people. In this way, t...