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Originally posted by Spanky
I think the biggest reason why the nations of the middle East and central Asia do not follow ethnolinguisic lines is because, as Ty pointed out, Europeans drew the lines. But as you point out the languages were spread over a much larger areas and it is much easier to create a small ehthnically homogeneous state.
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You get different results in your analysis if you start trying to explain nationalism as a particularist phenomenon that comes out of post-Reformation Europe rather than if you start trying to explain why others aren't nationalist, assuming nationalism to be some kind of norm.
We'll see what emerges, but I am not convinced that nationalism per se is the end game for every region of the earth.
