🔆Nation VS state what is the difference
✅A nation is a group that thinks of itself as ‘a people,’ usually because they share many things in common. These consist of a common territory, history, culture, language, religion and way of life.
✅The state has a narrower meaning referring to the constitutional arrangements which determine how a nation is governed. Or ‘state’ refers to the machinery of government that organises life in a given territory.
✅Thus, it is possible to distinguish between the state and its people.
✅Modern nations are largely nation states. States have been in existence since ancient times.
✅However, before the modern period in history, countries were mostly monarchies and empires, held together by loyalty to a ruling dynasty rather than by any sense of nationalism.
✅Historians trace the origins of nation states, if not of nationalism, to the eighteenth century. The first movements for nation states arose in Italy and Germany and spread later to other parts of the world.
✅In some countries, such as America, Australia and Canada, the state comprises many nations, and they are ‘multi-national societies’.
✅Societies with heavy immigration are seen as multi-national. Multinational countries are sometimes prone to civil wars between different groups.
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✅A nation is a group that thinks of itself as ‘a people,’ usually because they share many things in common. These consist of a common territory, history, culture, language, religion and way of life.
✅The state has a narrower meaning referring to the constitutional arrangements which determine how a nation is governed. Or ‘state’ refers to the machinery of government that organises life in a given territory.
✅Thus, it is possible to distinguish between the state and its people.
✅Modern nations are largely nation states. States have been in existence since ancient times.
✅However, before the modern period in history, countries were mostly monarchies and empires, held together by loyalty to a ruling dynasty rather than by any sense of nationalism.
✅Historians trace the origins of nation states, if not of nationalism, to the eighteenth century. The first movements for nation states arose in Italy and Germany and spread later to other parts of the world.
✅In some countries, such as America, Australia and Canada, the state comprises many nations, and they are ‘multi-national societies’.
✅Societies with heavy immigration are seen as multi-national. Multinational countries are sometimes prone to civil wars between different groups.
#gs4
#ethics
#gs2
#ir