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Old 11-07-2009, 03:44 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Which is not an opinion shared by all.
Right. Sort of like agreement over the accuracy of definition 2.

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WFor example the Basque, Irish Republicans in Northern and Ireland and Eire, Cornwall separatists, the collective Islamic nation evoked in rhetoric used by Khomeini as part of the Iranian revolution, the Jewish nationality. You may well live in a nation state where the normative perception of nation conforms well to state borders but the fact of the matter is you can ask a lot of people their nationality and get no answers of relevance to functioning global borders as they're understood by Foreign policy.
I would describe those groups you mention as cultures instead of as nations. And I think the United Nations would agree with that me on that.
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