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That's from Wikipedia but you know, you should still read it.A nation-state (hyphenated or not) in the most specific sense is a country where a distinct cultural or ethnic group (a "nation" or "people") inhabits a territory and have formed a state (often a sovereign state) that they predominantly govern. A nation, in the sense of a common ethnicity, may include a diaspora or refugees who live outside the nation-state; some nations of this sense do not have a state where that ethnicity predominates. In a more general sense, a nation-state is simply a large, politically sovereign country or administrative territory. A nation-state may be contrasted with:
A multinational state, where no one ethnic group dominates (may also be considered a multicultural state depending on the degree of cultural assimilation of various groups).
A city-state which is both smaller than a "nation" in the sense of "large sovereign country" and which may or may not be dominated by all or part of a single "nation" in the sense of a common ethnicity.[1][2][3]
An empire, which is composed of many countries (possibly non-sovereign states) and nations under a single monarch or ruling state government.
A confederation, a league of sovereign states, which might or might not include nation-states (such as the European Union).
A federated state which may or may not be a nation-state, and which is only partially self-governing within a larger federation (for example, the state boundaries of Bosnia and Herzegovina are drawn along ethnic lines, but those of the United States are not).
This article mainly discusses the more specific definition of a nation-state, as a typically sovereign country dominated by a particular ethnicity.
All US states are sovereignHere's a short play that maybe will help you understand things better.
That's a matter basic definitions - it's like 1+1=2.
Common citizenship does not constitute a nation - See, Syria, the EU, And i can go on.As a nation is any large group comradeship based on some assumed common characteristic, and the only actually existing common characteristic between Americans is citizenship,
We are closing in here, you are approaching some form of understanding, but to relate to the former point, is the first generation hispanic (i.e born there) A US citizen?then in the context of American identity, nationhood,
Yes - Are they a US 'National' ? Or or is it more accurate to think of said person as part of a 'Hispanic' nation?
And here is where the discussion was, before you interrupted with inanity.
And again, since you didn't get it last time, this has nothing to do with the state, and state power - The Kurds are a Nation, but they have no state.and state power,
Given that we are speaking English not American and that the word Nation, comes from Latin, You are the abberant outlier that does not conform -that it's different in Europe and elsewhere is immaterial.
It's almost like i said that:The United States has never been something akin to an ethnostate, at least in the formal sense, and deliberately rejected being something like that 150 years ago.
Oh wait i did.
Also, have you heard of the immigration act of 1924? - Hint, it was explicitly racist, and with the explicit purpose of maintaining the homogeneity of the US and since basic things need to be explained to you, 1924 was 94 years ago.This doesn't contradict what i said.Except whiteness doesn't have any real meaning, not then and not now. It's not like "left handed" or "blind," by which there is some objective criteria with which one can used to determine how and when and to who the label is applied. One day - and not very long ago - people decided whiteness needed to exist to justify and perpetuate existing social arrangements and just invented it.
I think you will find that British denotes a ethnogeographic commonality too.Category error: Scottish people are British, but they aren't Anglo-Saxons. British denotes geographic commonality, Anglo-Saxon denotes an ethnogeographic commonality (literally "Saxons of England"). Also, WASP didn't exist as a term of demarcation until the mid 20th century.
Yeah, and it was probably wealthy, not white, but as you yourself said, these things are arbitrary and malleable.
- - - Updated - - -In actual colonial America, people identified themselves by an amalgam of colonial residency and specific sect. If you lived in Boston in, say, 1730, you were't a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, you were likely just a Massachusetts Congregationalist.
Is there such a thing as a 'real' american?