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This week on the blog, we are taking the July 4th weekend as an opportunity to discuss nations, nationalism and why the United States isn't a nation but perhaps something more.https://acoup.blog/2021/07/02/collections-my-country-isnt-a-nation/ …
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Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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Great article. While my ancestors showed up too late to fight for the American Revolution, they *did* show up in time to fight for the Union in the Civil War - a far nobler cause in my estimation, and more integral to our country by some counts.
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Great article, though I think the "speech community" of American English deserves more focus. English is a pre-requisite for the citizenship test, thus the English speech community is larger than the citizen body. Some citizens react angrily to hearing non-English languages
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I took this as an opportunity to join
@BretDevereaux 's patreon. The content is worth it!Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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I actually disagree on the “no shared history” part. The vast majority of Americans have a shared ancestral background as outcasts or misfits who had to rebuild their lives in a new land and struggle for their acceptance as equal claimants to our civic heritage.
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Interesting. Though I'd propose that empire and hegemony aren't distinct - I can't come up with a good example of an empire than isn't also hegemon of other territories. Second, if post-Putin Russian CRs etc count as empire, I'd be interested in what distinguishes these from...
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... the situation of PR and other US territories, or the native nations, don't
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Personally I disagree with your terminology--I feel like "tribe" fits the idea you're trying to describe better than "nation", which has been subject to linguistic drift--but beyond that I do agree with all your other points.
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It's not my terminology - I am literally discussing the formal, technical definition of 'nation.' I didn't invent this usage. It is definition I.1.a in the Oxford English dictionary:pic.twitter.com/JiqWP82IIe
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