Italians had an identity long before the peninsula was united as Italy
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Come on Jeanne but one guy had that line in 1861 about needing to make Italians. So clearly not.
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You're not a big fan of Pan-European nationalism, Steve?
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Pan-Europeanism doesn't work in Europe There's too much history to merely overlook.
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The English, Scots, Welsh, and Northern Irish managed to create a centuries-lasting union, though.
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ok now get the russians, the finns, the estonians, the latvians, the lithuanians, the belorussians, the ukrainians, the swedes, the danes, the norwegians, the icelanders, the poles, the czechs, the slovakians, the hungarians, the bulgarians, the moldavians, the romanians...
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the croats, the serbs, the montenegrens, the macedonians, the greeks, the italians, the austrians, the germans, the dutchs, the belgians, the french, the spanish, the portuguese, the english, the scottish, the irish and the welsh to create a centuries lasting union
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just imagine trying to decide the flag
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The flag could be similar to the current E.U. flag, but with more stars.
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the current EU flag is terrible
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"We have made Italy now we must make Italians" 1861
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Quoting one quip doesn't a compelling argument to non-aspies make.
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I mentioned ancient Egyptian nationalism in my review of the Oxford History of Egypt. With quotes from the book. http://lazyglossophiliac.blogspot.com/2017/01/review-of-oxford-history-of-ancient.html …
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Evans would only have to spend a week in Korea to have Koreans disabuse him. My bet is that he'd go back home telling his friends that Korea is "the only divided country in the world" or the only one "with four unique seasons" or some other bromide we expats hear all the time.
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Maybe we should be mote careful about who we allow to make these "powerful stories"? Hooray for Hollywood, darat darat da...
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Italy has a fairly natural nationalism? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance … Italy was forced together https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Garibaldi … & today has separatist/regionalist movements
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If it’s all a construct, “nationalistic stories we tell ourselves”, why these stories are oft told in languages so different as if ON PURPOSE? Compare Hungarian & Czech or Polish and German...
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Anyway, always fun to hear “open borders” argument for people who probably are pro Ukraine/Tibet/Israel...
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