Why do people die for countries full of strangers?

Why do people die for countries full of strangers?

In Theory & Philosophy’s “Benedict Anderson's ‘Imagined Communities’ (Part 1/2),” David explains Anderson’s account of nationalism as a modern, stubborn, politically powerful way of imagining community. The transcript covers Anderson’s starting puzzle of socialist states fighting in national terms, the paradoxes of the nation, the definition of the nation as an imagined political community that is limited and sovereign, the nation’s kinship-like or religious force, its cultural roots in death, religion, dynasty, changing ideas of time, print capitalism, mass language formation, and the early American Creole cases that helped pioneer national consciousness.