Sentences with phrase «national origin myth»

It's a national origin myth, a monument to resistance and an enormous spectacle; a work of expansive genius, restored to us by a considerable labour of love.

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Buber argues that Zionism is, or can be, a unique national movement precisely because it is based not on national «rights» or a myth of origins, but on dwelling in a land that belongs to no one people precisely because it belongs to God.

This myth, from the Iwaidja people of northwestern Australia, has more than a grain of truth, for the peopling and language origins of Australia are closely entwined, says linguist Nicholas Evans of Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra.

Paolo Viscardi, a zoologist at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin who was not involved with the research, says the new study helps debunk Ata's origin myths.