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Old 01-11-06, 21:34   #5
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Re: On what basis is britain a nation?

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Are you not really asking what nationalism is then?
No - although that's also an interesting question. I'm trying to ask people who take for granted that they're scottish, or british or whatever, and who even might feel quite passionate about it, what they think that it is that they're talking about?

It seems to me that the bases for the structure of the nation state are falling away, but I don't think people really think about that; what made nation states, nation states, and whether that still remains valid. and if people reject the nation state as the basis for their nationalism, i'd love to hear them trying to explain what else it might be, without getting caught in a 101 pc booby traps
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