Once you’ve been alive a few decades you realize how made-up political geography is. City I was born in is now in a new state. I have close family born in Burma when that was still part of British India. To my grandfather, Mysore kingdom and Madras Presidency were real entities.
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Useful fictions. Makes me wonder how much room for improvement we are missing out on with our rigid definitions :)
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So much this. The nation state is pretty new really but we act like it’s the eternal way of things. Semi related - Napoleon called himself “Emperor” because it was much more progressive democratic sounding than “King”
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