The Third Category

I finished entering data of college students today. Many college students seem to think that a person can have more than one national identity; for example, a certain person can be both Japanese and American. Preschoolers, elementary and junior high school students don't think that way: they think that a person can belong only to one national group. In other words, national identity becomes de-essentialized, inclusive, and perhaps ambiguous, as kids group up. Indeed, "dual citizenship" is very interesting in thinking about psychology of nationalism.