I think that the idea of a national character, no matter what you say it is, is a fiction. I don't think nations have characters. It's like to say that a nation has a character is always a political project that we should be suspicious of. So, and another theme that we have talked about at several points in the project too is this shifting nature of whiteness and its arbitrariness. The definition of whiteness has evolved over time as well, not just one year apart but over decades.

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