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Citizenship is not only determined by legal definitions of inviduals vis-a-vis the state, but also by extra-legal elements between fellow citizens which, in everyday speech, we acknowledge with terms such as first-class and second-class citizenship.

Cultural citizenship is concerned with the histories of subordinated groups within the nation-state that might not be covered by official legal or political narratives.

Cultural citizenship is the seemingly paradoxical position of claiming one's cultural difference and claiming the right to be treated as a first-class citizen.

Culture is less a matter of artifacts and propositions, rules, or beliefs, than of associative chains and images that tell what can be reasonably linked up with what.

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History is, for the iIlongot, a series of real happenings in the past which are ordered selectively (genealogically) to make sense of a particular present.

Imperialist nostalgia is a longing for a past that our own imperialist/capitalist regimes have systematically eroded.

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