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Originally posted by Spanky
As you say the lines of Africa, the Middle East and SouthEast Asia were drawn by colonial empire. Making them unnatural in my mind. In Subsaharan Africa, the ethnic nations (the tribes) are so small that becoming a nation is not really practical. But still, the tribes in each country fight with eachother. But in the Middle East and Central Asia the ethnic groups are much bigger, but where the colonial lines are drawn, the lines are not natural and will move towards the natual borders, ethnolinquistic borders.
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What about Central and South America (excluding Brazil)? There doesn't seem to be any movement toward those countries combining, notwithstanding speaking the same language and having (broadly) similar ethnic origins. Or do all countries in the Americas fall (generally) into you "mutts exception"?
