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This is a weird argument ignoring the main reasons for nationality - locality and familiarity, i.e. a group of people living next to each other speaking the sam

• gkya 9y ago
  What's a dialect and what's a language is quite hazy. Bulgaria and Macedonia speak nearly the identical language, and are quite similar culturally, but are considered different nations. From Northern Italy to Sicily the linguistic variation is so much that a dialect can be more similar to a different language than a dialect at the other side of the country. Many nations speak multiple languages that they recognise, e.g. Belgium, Switzerland, Norway, Spain (not sure if recognised), many have multiple native languages in their own borders, but do not recognise, e.g. Turkey, France. In many nations the culture of certain areas are more similar to close areas across a border than to another part of the country. Many nations have multiple large religious groups, e.g. Lebanon, Bosnia & Herzegovina, India, Ethiopia.