As a sense of national identity grew so did the use of national names.

民族认同感如斯滋长，久而久之必然可以称呼为国号。

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The sense of national identity tends to create two kinds of effect upon society, which is either positive or negative.

民族认同意识可能产生积极的和消极的两种社会作用。

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We should expand cultural exchanges to enhance a common sense of national identity, and further people-to-people contacts to cultivate mutual goodwill.

扩大文化交流，增强民族认同。 密切人民往来，融洽同胞感情。

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Many concern presidential speeches, which he wrote himself, hated giving but considered vital for creating the right sense of national identity for a new republic.

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Ocalan, 49, said late last year he had little sense of national identity until he was a teenager, but was struck by the powerlessness of his poor, illiterate farming parents.

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For all its near-billion population, its should-be booming economy and its admirably efficient army, India always seems to be held back by something its fragile sense of national identity, the geographical isolation of the Indian subcontinent between mountains and sea, maybe the inward-looking nature of the Hindu religion from becoming the sort of country that strides confidently on to the world stage.

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