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In short, then, the significance of globalization has lain not in eliminating nationhood, but in substantially complicating the construction of identity. Globalization has facilitated an upsurge of multiple identities that has in past decades eroded the position of the state-nation as the preeminent structure of self-definition and collective solidarity. In the resultant process of hybridiza-tion, constructions of collective identities have tended to become more multi-dimensional, fluid and uncertain.