National treasure

Nationalism is an ideology that supports the nation as the fundamental unit of human social life, which includes shared language, values, and culture.

A national treasure can be a shared cultural asset, which may or may not have monetary value; for example, a skilled banjo player would be a Living National Treasure.

Or it may refer to a rare cultural object, such as the medieval manuscript Plan of St. Gall in Switzerland.

Listed here are samples of the different types of things that can be national treasure: Examples of people who have been described as national treasures include the following: In 2013 the British satirical magazine Private Eye began running a column poking fun at an exponential increase in references in the press to "national treasures".

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