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  Greece, Blog Post 1 Defining National Identity National Identity is made up of internal culture and external relationships with significant others. This definition builds off Anna Triandafyllidou’s “National identity and the ‘other’” (1998). Triandafyllidou says national identity “may be conceived as a double-edged relationship. On one hand … it involves a certain degree of commonality within the group … on the other hand, national identity implies difference. Its existence presupposes the existence of ‘others’” (Triandafyllidou, p. 599). Here Triandafyllidou is explaining how ‘others’ give meaning to a country’s national Identity along with that country’s people’s shared traits. Greek national identity supports Triandafyllidou’s idea in how it was forged through historical opposition to Ottoman rule, and stemming from this, how Greece has current hostility toward its Turkish/Muslim significant other. This is explained in the quote, “Greek national consciousness, the ‘othering’...