I dont get this question. Ty for ur help
2007-01-04 06:27:27 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Nations are big families.
Countries are political clubhouses.
You are born into a nation.
You are given membership in a country.
Your nationality comes from your ancestors.
Your citizenship comes from your government.
Nationality is a biological fact.
Citizenship is a political status.
Your nationality is your race.
Your citizenship determines which government collects your taxes.
Nations are natural.
Countries are artifice.
When a country grows out of a nation naturally, without being contaminated by foreign races, you feel as if you were "at home" anywhere in it. Everyone you meet is your cousin, even if you don't know his or her name. You have that "family feeling" or sense of belonging, wherever your racial cousins are living. People leave their doors unlocked... they might even leave home with their doors OPEN.
Racial mixing ends all that. Everybody suddenly needs "security," and lots of it. No more do you have the family feeling, the feeling that you are at home, as you travel in the country which, though you are a citizen, is no longer really yours.
2007-01-04 06:32:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nations in themselves are natural phenomena, seeing that the definition of a nation is related to ethnic belonging to a tribe or group. Thus, being born of a certain ancestry is being born into a certain nation. One example would be the use of the term Sioux Nation to describe a certain ethnic group of Native Americans. The use of nation today to mean 'country' comes from the use of the term Nation-State, the belief that each nation should create their own state or political unit. In that case, one could argue that the phenomena of creating states or political units that cover the land mass of the Earth is artificial.
2007-01-04 16:04:54 · answer #2 · answered by Kaoso 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means is it natural to have borders around land and name that section France, for example and have all the people that live there called French people? Did that happen without people getting involved ar did people get together and decide to form a country and make their own government, different from the people over there? Artificial or natural? If people went away, would countries still exist? Do animals and birds live in countries even if they freely cross the borders?
2007-01-04 14:31:36 · answer #3 · answered by Andrew O 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on your point of view. Humans are basically tribal and exist in family units. That could be considered natural. Nations are basically 'super' tribes with a whole lot of rules built in. They look artificial on the surface as many processes develop out of nation building that could be considered unnatural, but the idea is based on a very natural human instinct.
2007-01-04 14:31:29 · answer #4 · answered by bionicbookworm 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Artificial, but based from natural. The only completely natural grouping unit is the family, which was required adaptation for survival. In order for the furthering of the species, the family unit evolved into the small grouping/extended family unit. It kept going from there, into a large mass unit which serves almost none of the purposes for which we developed family groups in the first place.
2007-01-04 14:30:00 · answer #5 · answered by emily_brown18 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The man who popularised Nationhood is Attaturk(Ottoman Empire).
2007-01-04 14:54:08 · answer #6 · answered by Roostah N 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both. Governments come in later and screw it all up officially.
2007-01-04 14:28:36 · answer #7 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋