Nation = a connected group of people (historically, networks of clans sharing religion and blood)
People should care about the nation because it is literally their family, their clan of clans.
America's global cultural dominance has fucked these words up. It was polite to refer to America as a "nation" as a gesture toward common cause. Realistically, America is ~20 nations, one for each stereotype you can come up with: east coast, Midwestern, Irish Catholic, etc., etc. Even most of those have been subsumed by globohomo.
State = government
Country = land administered by the state
Nation = a connected group of people (historically, networks of clans sharing religion and blood)
People should care about the nation because it is literally their family, their clan of clans.
America's global cultural dominance has fucked these words up. It was polite to refer to America as a "nation" as a gesture toward common cause. Realistically, America is ~20 nations, one for each stereotype you can come up with: east coast, Midwestern, Irish Catholic, etc., etc. Even most of those have been subsumed by globohomo.
The same goes for Canada, traditionally, even beyond the Anglo-Franco divide; each region has its own stereotype.
This pretty much sums things up.
RETVRN TO CLAN
Without a lick of irony: yes.