People misusing "nation-state" to sound fancy is my own private war and I will die on its every hill.
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I will pay the ultimate price point to stop people saying nation-state
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Not sure if the strength of that insult is backed up the the semantic dispute here. Iran vs the definition of nation state is hardly a open shut case.
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That word does not have the meaning you want it to have. Meanings arise from the usage of the entire community of language users, not the ranting of pedants. Sorry.
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Majority rules, and the correct usage is still the common one
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But nations are not necessarily defined by ethnicity, therefore nation-state/multi-ethinic state aren't mutually exclusive.
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Nation-state is a nation specifically defined in terms of ethnicity
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