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    NATIONAL IDENTITY PROCESSES IN EUROPE AND KAZAKHSTAN
    (СДУ хабаршысы - 2018, 2018) Kurakbayeva D.
    Abstract. Whether nationalism is a primordial or modern phenomenon is a contested issue and still debated. Scholars of nationalism are divided into different schools with various approaches to studying nations and national identity. The most prominent ones are modernist constructivist, perennial and functionalist approaches. Apart from them, feminist approach andethnosymbolism are worth mentioning. The course of rewriting the history to maintain a stable national sentiments in the state brings about a question of whether our nation has been there all the time or if nations and nationalism are constructed and, as Benedict Andersen says, imagined. Another question is if national identity is merely a social notion and has nothing to do with politics or not. This paper discusses national identity in Kazakhstan and compares it to the formation of nationalism in Europe.