There are for sure many personalities one might possess, I can only think about two right now, as this is the part that I'd like to emphasize. These are individual and national personalities. I'd like to think that these two should be separated as a man should be understood separately from the nation he belongs to. This is not a denial to the existence of nation states that is but one of the many dimensions that defines our system today. However this is an effort to make one realize that a person is actually composed of many different persons. Especially when we're in an international realm, we are left with nothing but our national identities, which shows itself as the simplest labeling process. It is not an attempt to understand the person in front of you, but it is a very creation of a self relief by a differentiation, which tries to establish unequal grounds.
Especially by the impact of globalization a lot of academicians suggest that the idea of nationalism is fading away. In the higher grounds one might propose that it is so, as the new differentiation is not made by the nations, however they are created by the backgrounds one is from, that would be mostly about lifestyle and experience, for now we can simplify it as urban and rural. Obviously that would be which part of the urban or which part of the rural one is "from" (*). What is emphasized here is mostly that there might be two individuals living in the opposite sides of the Earth, and in terms of thinking they are the closest. That is obviously about a disembedding mechanism, which doesn't alter the space and time, but thought and space. If an example should be given to that; a 21 year old girl from Afghanistan living in a metropolitan coming from an educational background, which allows her to think critically; might listen the similar kind of music with a 22 year old guy who studies law at Oxford let's say. Therefore in this example thought and space are on different grounds regardless to what nation they belong to. (**)
However in the lower grounds(***) how nationalism fades away is not totally discovered by most of the people. It would be amazing to many that example given above would actually exist. Still our national personality becomes dominant in our everyday conversations especially in an international stage. The idea that is suggested here is that human being is a complex creature and simplifying it would harm the relationships we have with our real individual personalities. Altering this is mostly about questioning the values that are given to us when we were experiencing our childhood, and realizing that the history we learned is not the real one, it is a reflection of the real one, which had been filtered by the nation state ideologies.
*Of course by from, do we mean the place he lived most of his life or something different?
**Nation is obviously a broader concept which is unluckily locked in the territory of a nation state, and because it is so by space we mean the national territory one comes "from" (physically or ideally)
***Higher grounds would be what is real, as the lower grounds would be what is perceived by this reality.
