"We're a nation-state," says Obama, but until recently the whole point of American exceptionalism was that we aren't a nation-state at all, but a pluralistic country of immigrants. Get your papers and you're as American as any 50th-generation Cherokee.https://www.yahoo.com/now/obama-says-open-borders-unsustainable-151600499.html …
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Replying to @Pinboard
I don't think I understand how you're defining nation-state
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Replying to @__apf__
You can think of "nation" as an ethnicity with an army. A nation-state is a country where citizenship is pretty much identified with belonging to one such homogeneous group, like Japan or modern Poland or Hungary.
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