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A group of strangers who agree to die for the same flag.
means A large community of people bound together by shared territory, history, culture, or government, and recognized as a political unit.
from From Latin natio, 'birth' or 'breed,' itself from nasci, 'to be born' — originally used by Romans for a group of foreigners born in the same place, like a tribe or race sharing a birthplace. The word carried this sense of common origin through Old French nacion into English, only later swelling to mean the organized, flag-bearing political entity we think of today.
- older than states
- Nations existed for centuries before most modern borders did
- imagined community
- Term coined because most members will never meet
- shared myths required
- Needs a common story more than a common language
- stateless examples
- Kurds and Catalans are nations without their own country