National identity in my own words has two different factors. It is the identity that a nation obtains from both internal and external contributors. A key part of this identity that a nation represents is it that there is a contrast with others in the surrounding region. A national identity can only belong to one country and no other because that defeat's the meaning behind what it represents. There is nothing special about a country with an identity that is a replica or even a pretty close double of another's country's identity. A national identity brings in both internal and external contributors because history has its role in defining an identity of a nation. In layman's terms, a neighboring country is an external factor but when the the people of that country have chosen to occupy another's own land, that affects the identity of that people's land internally decades later. That external country's people has now inhabit another's country and adds to t...