In an increasingly pluralistic society, "we need to think ourselves beyond
             the nation," (158). Traditional concepts of the nation-state focus on land
             and clearly defined geo-political borders, common languages, common
             histories, blood ties, and cultural traditions. However, that which
             previously united a people under a rubric called "nation" no longer
             applies, as territory itself is less important to the definition of a
             "nation" than a shared identity forged through what AUTHOR identifies as
             diasporas. Mass migrations of people across geo-political boundaries has
             created nations-within-nations, minority ethnic, religious, or racial
             groups that unite first under their bond and second under the laws and
             customs of their newly adopted nation-state. AUTHOR calls these subcultures
             "trans-nations," pointing to the requisite hyphen that attends so many
             transnational identities in the United States. African-Americans, Hispanic-
             Americans, and Asian-Americans comprise some of the dislocated,
             decentralized nations that help form fresh insight into the concept of
             nation and of nationalism. Moreover, transnationalism impacts traditional
             patriotic sentiments, sometimes by undermining it and other times by simply
             augmenting the need for newly forged social forms. For example, an Italian-
             American may feel compelled to join the United States army as a display of
             loyalty for his newly adopted nation-state.
             However, AUTHOR distinguishes between allegiance to one's culturally
             or racially-defined nation and being willing to die for one's country.
             Traditional patriotism is defined as the latter, while new post-national
             patriotism is defined by the former. AUTHOR states on page 173, "diasporic
             diversity actually puts loyalty to a nonterritorial transnation first," and
             loyalty to one's territorially-defined nation-state second. Not all
             individual members of transnations arrange their allegiances in...