"Nationalism is a modern creation" - spoken like someone who has never read Plato, Caesar, or the Old Testament.https://twitter.com/AlexNowrasteh/status/1085876616432103424 …
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4/ 1 Kings 8:53 For you singled them out from all the nations of the world to be your own inheritance, just as you declared through your servant Moses when you, Sovereign Lord, brought our ancestors out of Egypt.” (written c. 500 BC)
5/
"nation" - English (c. 1600 AD ?)
from "nacion" - Middle English
from "nacion" - Old French
from "nationem" - Latin
from "nasci" - Etruscan (?) c. 700 BC
vs
"Nationalism is a modern creation " - @AlexNowrasteh , ~ 1 hour ago
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cc @AlexNowrasteh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruk_period#The_first_states_and_their_institutions …
"The idea that the Uruk period [ 6,000 to 5,000 years ago ] saw the appearance of a true state... is generally accepted by scholars"
8/
We all need to eat.
I write code to earn money.
@AlexNowrasteh
says provably false things on the internet, day after day, for the same purpose.
https://twitter.com/kaijubushi/status/1085902798967820289 …
9/ except "nation" means "a group of people of shared ethnicity who think of themselves as one people, who are taxed, raise an army, consider themselves better than others, and attack others to to make them do their will" in both 5,000 BC and 2,000 ADhttps://twitter.com/djinnius/status/1085904745397596161 …
10/ If you want to argue that "nation" means all of the above in 2,019 AD, but all of these various concepts were invented c. 1880, I am willing to listen to your argument.
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