How important are national myths to the identity of a nation?

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Follow-up question: what unifies a nation the strongest? Language? Race? Religion?

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    From a theoretical perspective I think the most compelling argument is that shared experience in action matters more than ideas, cultural identity, or even institutions: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13698230.2019.1697843

    There’s some empirical research on what kinds of unification policies work and don’t (https://systems.enpress-publisher.com/index.php/jipd/article/view/8874) but I don’t think it’s very clear how to define and measure what national unity actually is.