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> the delayed formation of nation-states Do you think that between the British, the French, the Russians, and the Ottomans all controlling the region, the deve
by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> the delayed formation of nation-states
Do you think that between the British, the French, the Russians, and the Ottomans all controlling the region, the development of nation-states may have been delayed by understandable reasons.
- woodpanel 10y agoI think so. Or to put it in another perspective: Nations often (if not mostly or everytime) came into being by an outside threat. USA = the British England = The French/Catholic Church Germany = France Poland = Germany and Russia and so on. Threats make possible that people see an "us". I very much like the term "imagined communities" (Benedict Anderson) in this regard.