<P> A national consciousness is a shared sense of national identity; that is, a shared understanding that a people group shares a common ethnic / linguistic / cultural background . Historically, a rise in national consciousness has been the first step towards the creation of a nation . National consciousness, at a glance, is one's level of awareness, of the collective, and one's understanding that without "them" there is no "us". It is the mere awareness of the many shared attitudes and beliefs towards things like family, customs, societal and gender roles, etc . This awareness allows one to have a "collective identity" which allows them to be knowledgeable of not only where they are, but how those places and people around them are so significant in that they ultimately make the collective, a nation . In short, national consciousness can be defined as a specific core of attitudes that provide habitual modes for regarding life's phenomena . </P> <P> Nationalism requires first a national consciousness, the awareness of national communality of a group of people, or nation . </P>

Factors that prevent the promotion of national consciousness integrity and unity