The Myth of the Nation-State

It means that within given borders and under a legitimate government there resides some form of homogeneous group, ideally ethnically similar. The philosopher Ernst Gellner once quipped, “Each nation should have a country and each country should have a nation, and hopefully they are the same”.

There have been few true nation-states in history. Most of them were exclusive if not violent towards those who were not part of the dominant group. True nation-states have not been kind to minorities.

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