SCHNAPPER, Dominique <br/><br/>
La nation comme communauté de culture 

 - Paris :  IIAP,  juil./sept. 1988 
<br/><br/> A handful of basic principles and a specific conception of the nation underlie recommendations of the 'Commission de la Nationalité'. This conception has its origins in Renan and Fustel de Coulanges who saw the nation as the result of the commom will to live together on the basis of knowledge and adoption of an inherit past. 'German' thinking differs over the means of handling down this past: one view relies on voluntary acceptance and acquisition: the other on membership in an collective unconscious and biological or ethnic transmission. The 'Commission' holds that the ethnic heritage of a nation is available to everyone through the school system and active participation in community affairs