• Hawke@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Yes but my point is that he’s not using the wrong word.

    Edit: also Kurdistan exists

    • Anti-Face Weapon@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      Kurdistan doesn’t really have a central government like that, nor fixed or well defined borders. Keep in mind that the concept of a “Nation State” is really only a couple hundred years old.

      If that counterexample doesn’t satisfy you, then Somalia should. It is a country without a functioning government, which has two nations inside of them of the northern and southern Somalians which are completely different, and neither of which have any sort of unifying government.