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> Historically, realms that have been patched together from previously autonomous bodies have not done too well (I would appreciate counter examples). Spain
by Oletros 11y ago
> Historically, realms that have been patched together from previously autonomous bodies have not done too well (I would appreciate counter examples).
Spain
- rawTruthHurts 11y agoIs not doing too well.
- Timmons 11y ago*At the moment
- rawTruthHurts 11y agoMemories keep us alive, don't they?
- pluma 11y agoEngland. The UK. France. Germany. The USA. The list of "[countries] patched together from previously autonomous bodies" happens to be an incredibly huge subset of countries that exist today.
- rawTruthHurts 11y agoThat's a good list of the remmants of dismembered entities, with the exception of the USA, which is relatively young.
- pluma 11y agoThe USA is also a remnant of a dismembered entity (or rather composed of one). I can't think of any country that has remained exactly the same throughout history. Nearly every country out there is either an agglomeration of formerly independent entities or used to be part of a bigger entity at some point. Your categories are useless. Unless you're trying to define categories for countries which don't exist.
- rawTruthHurts 11y agoWhat categories are those? The USA is no remant, they earned their independence. I don't quite get the "composed of one" part.
- Oletros 11y agoperhaps in 400 years USA won't do wel
- im3w1l 11y agoThey've literally had guerillas trying to split it up. Is that the kind of EU we want?
- Oletros 11y ago> They've literally had guerillas trying to split it up What the heck?
- im3w1l 11y agoThe most famous is the Basque ETA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA The Catalonians also had one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Lliure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Lliure
- Oletros 11y agoETA was not a guerrilla, it was a terrorist group And Terra Lliure would have been a joke if not for the only innocent death they provoked. It is perhaps the only terrorist group that has more deaths by accident than actions they tried to do
- im3w1l 11y agoAh, I see. I thought they were synonyms.