What is the relationship between the individual and the nation?

What is the relationship between the individual and the nation? This is a very vague question, I know, but that's the point. I have to provide quotes to support my argument and they have to be from The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger and either Ignatieff's "The Narcissism of Minor Difference" or Martha Stout's "When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, it was Friday.