For what is a nation if not a people of a common ancestry, faith, culture and language, who worship the same God, revere the same heroes, cherish the same history, celebrate the same holidays and share the same music, poetry, art and literature?
Those are all a way to build a nation, but not the only ways, and a people do not have to share all of these characteristics in order to be a nation. I mean, what if we all believed in the same document that birthed our nation? Wouldn’t that count?
Either way, I think we have enough overlap on all these things to consider ourselves a nation.
Source: mandalay
