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So you'd say West Virginia is a country but not a state, and every Chinatown is a nation? I don't think your definitions match the accepted reality in the Ameri

• dredmorbius 7y ago
  The definitions given are well-established: Country: A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship. http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=country http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=cou... State: A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united under one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation. http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=state http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=sta... Nation: A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock. http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=nation http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=nat...
• simonh 7y ago
  Terminology used by specialists within their area of expertise often don’t.
• dabbledash 7y ago
  I’m a native English speaker, and that’s how I would define those words. E.g., we call people who supported the break up of the Austro-Hungarian empire in favor of self-rule by its constituent ethnic groups “nationalists.”
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