The National Identity and Others of Malta Throughout History
The National Identity and Others of Malta Throughout History National Identity is an interesting and complex topic. How much does it really mean? What impacts a nation's identity? How can we see it from the outside? Because so many things go into a country's national identity, it is very hard to define and it can be good or bad depending on who you ask and how much they fit the mold of their country. One way of describing it is "defining who is a member of the community but also who is a foreigner" (Triandafyllidou, 1988, p.1) but there are many aspects that can go into defining insiders and outsiders including language, ethnicity, and religion. This is especially interesting in an ethnostate like Malta because a very large majority of the people have all of those things in common. Here, we will take a look at how Malta seems to separate insiders from outsiders or "others". Others are people that don’t fit the projected national identity of the country. Th...
