--- title: "1 Modern Nation Quotes By Colin McArthur" description: "1 Modern Nation quotes by Colin McArthur. Plus more from Colin McArthur and more Modern Nation sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e97/colin-mcarthur-67480_1938_by-1938-scotland-had-for-nearly-200-year_1387250.jpg" --- > [“By 1938, Scotland had for nearly 200 years lived within a classic peripheral identity assigned to it by the artists and ideologues of the great European core cultures through the mode of Romanticism and their control of the means of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-mcarthur/by-1938-scotland-had-for-nearly-200-years-lived-within-a-classic/) Colin McArthur [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e97/colin-mcarthur-67480_1938_by-1938-scotland-had-for-nearly-200-year_1387250.jpg) ## More by Colin McArthur > [“By 1938, Scotland had for nearly 200 years lived within a classic peripheral identity assigned to it by the artists and ideologues of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-mcarthur/by-1938-scotland-had-for-nearly-200-years-lived-within-a-classic/) Colin McArthur > [“To recall the extent to which Hitchcock was marked by his petit bourgeois interpellation may not radically change the way we read his films.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-mcarthur/to-recall-the-extent-to-which-hitchcock-was-marked-by-his-petit/) Colin McArthur > [“The gallery context of Scotch Myths puts the objects on display in an interrogatory framework in a way that their presence in souvenir shops…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-mcarthur/the-gallery-context-of-scotch-myths-puts-the-objects-on-display-in-an/) Colin McArthur > [“Scotland was not imune to these developments, but since their role in France, Germany, Itay and Poland was to provide the ideological amunition to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-mcarthur/scotland-was-not-imune-to-these-developments-but-since-their-role-in/) Colin McArthur ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/modern-nation/colin-mcarthur/#itemlist", "name": "1 Modern Nation Quotes By Colin McArthur", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“By 1938, Scotland had for nearly 200 years lived within a classic peripheral identity assigned to it by the artists and ideologues of the great European core cultures through the mode of Romanticism and their control of the means of (ideological) production. However, the brute fact of subsequent uneven economic development compelled the Scots to bring into collision with that historically assigned identity a new-fashioned identity more appropriate to a dynamic modern nation. Great national moments of self-presentation, such as the Glasgow Empire Exhibition of 1938, were the occasions when the ongoing dialectic of modern/urban against rural/ancient emerged in its most public and delirious form. Such occasions therefore hold a political lesson. The process of speaking with two voices - the fissures; the uncertainties; the grating shifts of gear from one discourse to another - assert once more, the fluid, unstable character of national identity. Such occasions proclaim that national identity is not a set of inborn, natural characteristic in a people, but the product of that people's history. 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