The presence of ‘others’ in close geographical and social proximity, a presence which would likely encourage mixing and interaction with these others, is thought to be a threat to the group’s integrity, virtue and its very nature. Failure to possess such features would exclude from membership in the group. ![]() Many Nationalist and Conservative interpretations of the idea of the ‘national identity’ tend to consider this in monolithic and changeless terms in terms of features and characteristics that members of the group have always had and by virtue of which they belong to the group in question. How the emblem of debauched foreign aristocracy became the ultimate symbol of Maltese identity.īy Michael Grech Illustration by Isles of the Left
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