> I always wondered - why people use a nation-state notion? It's a shibboleth, similar to HN favorites: "orders of magnitude" and "orthogonal". Shibboleths are

> I always wondered - why people use a nation-state notion? It's a shibboleth, similar to HN favorites: "orders of magnitude" and "orthogonal". Shibboleths are often social signifiers, sociology has lots of research on why people use them