My understanding of a nation-state is that it is a community with a diverse culture that is not of the state as a whole but is all governed by one government. An example that I could think of is the Philippines. It is actually hard to get a grasp on the idea of a nation-state but having the Philippines as an example would make it easier to digest. On what I understood, it is like here in the Philippines where we have different identities like the Ilocanos, the Bisaya and such where all of these are under one government.
For me, globalization is exactly what a nation-state needs. It is a very diverse identity that all these identities needs one medium in which they are all equal and can trade, communicate and share. It has been that the different identities in this country didn’t really got along well with each other and now that the Philippines is starting to become globalized, this is starting to change for the better. Through the new ideas, technology and perspective that globalization has, the different identities’ strengths have had been bonded together such that this country might progress. It is in that one governing body that this country’s downfall came, but in my perspective, this country can go the distance.
A nation-state works just like what I have just mentioned, well at least according to how I understood it from the example the Philippines. The differences each of the identities have in the Philippines have had given due respect and understanding where these differences was used as an edge for the betterment of everyone in the country. Although these identities have now had been disperse all around the country, they still retained their culture, beliefs and practices. Not only are these identities been scattered around the Philippines, but also around the world still retaining the Ilocano, Bisaya, Pangalatok, and the Filipino way. Which kind of makes the whole world a big nation-state because of globalization.
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