I've not yet listened to this but isn't it the other way around. Families create nations? To some extent people care about their nation because is the land built by their ancestors, their families. This is one of the reasons that immigrants rarely integrate.
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.
I've not yet listened to this but isn't it the other way around. Families create nations? To some extent people care about their nation because is the land built by their ancestors, their families. This is one of the reasons that immigrants rarely integrate.
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.