The imaginary consciousness of imaginary communities is so strong that it can motivate people to acts like going to war even at the cost of their lives for the same ideal that exists solely in their mind. A good example of "imaginary communities" could be for example the Jewish people who were scattered all over the world and lived very different lifestyles but united around a national consciousnessOne of Zionism as it is expressed in the Land of Israel. The central idea of "imaginary communities" is that a nation is formed as soon as a group of people unites around common ideas or perceptions that cause them to function as a unified group for a common goal, regardless of their relationship in reality. Benedict Anderson's main argument in terms of an " imagined community" is that a group of people defined as a nation is in fact an "imagined" political entity that exists only in the minds of people and not in reality.
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