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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
But, there is an odd kind of stability that hangs over the core states of Europe for several centuries (right after the Reformation on), and it may be that stability that is unusual and gave birth to nationalism of the sort that prevails in the West today.
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Those states were around for a long time before they began to conceive of themselves as nations.
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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
We'll see what emerges, but I am not convinced that nationalism per se is the end game for every region of the earth.
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Speaking of odd, it seems odd to me that the idea of a "nation" has been picked up around the world, as the template for every state. E.g., Nepal was a constitutional monarchy until just now, but it seems to have grafted Western conceptions of nationhood onto its traditional form of government.
