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> In Europe the notion of someone being a African Frenchmen or a African English is absurd. Yes, but > You are your nationality. Only if you're a nationalist
by einpoklum 6y ago
> In Europe the notion of someone being a African Frenchmen or a African English is absurd.
Yes, but
> You are your nationality.
Only if you're a nationalist. Many believe in cross-national or non-national collective identities, e.g. the identity of being a wage worker.
In other cases - it's groups oppressed by the state. The Catalan and Basque come to mind; and there are the Roma ("gypsies"), who are not territorially-defined.
etc.
- aspnet_dev 6y ago> Only if you're a nationalist. Nope. That is how the law and the state sees it.
- einpoklum 6y agoSo, if I live in a monarchy, and the law and the state see my identity as a loyal subject of our glorious king, then that's what I should believe?