国家认同危机不新鲜。

These national identity crises are nothing new.

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1945年以来，日本的国家认同一直与其在亚洲的经济地位紧密联系。

Since 1945, Japan's national identity has been tied up with economic primacy in Asia.

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但这种意愿被全球化、多元文化、以及对美国国家认同缺乏深厚感情的新移民潮击垮了。

But that willingness was being battered by globalization and multiculturalism and by new waves of immigrants with no deep attachments to America's national identity.

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But nonetheless, in the imagination, in the imaginaire, in the mental construction of these two countries, what we are not, that is Catholic, helps define their identity.

然而,在精神层面上,在精神体系的创立上,这两个国家的身份认同感,受到他们所否定的观念,即非天主教观念的影响

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In both cases, this becomes part of their self-identity. That's an essential part as my good friend, Linda Colley, who used to teach here and sadly is not here anymore.

在这两个国家中,这点是他们身份认同感中很重要的一部分,如同我的好朋友,琳达·科里,她以前是这里的老师,很遗憾现在不在耶鲁了

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Part of this reconstructing of national identity often has as much to do with who you're not, not absolute, not Catholic, not French as it does with you who imagine yourself to be.

对国家认同感的重建,一定程度上基于你不是什么,即不是独裁者,不是天主教,不是法国人,这点和自身定位同样至关重要

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