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A slight correction to you, nationalistic self concepts aren't as fluid as "whatever state says" because too strong a switch will heavily damage their legitimacy, given that there's a limit to rhetorical spin. Especially "foundational" myths are hard to change at will, and it must be noted that those myths are often relational to old narratives; even in places like Japan or Greece. They're usually crystalization of preexisting narratives that can be used used to justify and then pushed onto the population rather than entirely arbitrary/random, even if they were initially cherrypicked for efficiency in many cases. But mayhaps I am coping because I love Japan. I think the USA has a stronger case for postmodernism if you argue that their current spins on foundational myths constitute simulacra. Anyways look at this photo I took in Japan