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/ …
As I note in the essay, the word nation literally comes from 'natio' meaning birth via Old French nacion, meaning 'birth.' A notion of shared birth-origin is the root meaning of the word.
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Consequently, I'd contend that while there are a lot of ways to group people, for that grouping to be a nation, the myth of common origin - in particular the myth of a common *birth* origin is non-option. Other groupings are no less real, but they're not nations.
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Looking at the emergence of nationalism in Europe in the 18th-19th cent., the primacy of an imagined common genetic origin was central to the idea and no one was particularly subtle about it. I talk about that a bit here: https://acoup.blog/2020/02/14/collections-the-fremen-mirage-part-iiib-myths-of-the-atreides/ … in pursuit of a larger point.
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