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[QUOTE]Originally posted by lamin: [QB] The nation states are all conglomerations of ethnic groups--as a result of Berlin Conference impositions. But the alternatives are some 500 relatively small and ineffective statelets or the unification of all those small and weak neocolonial states into more effective groups. The Europeans and the East Asians have been able to move away from having potentially disruptive ethnic groups in their state formations--which explains their national strengths to a certain extent. Europe of the past was home to Picts, Angles, Saxons, Celts, Bretons, Normans, Vikings, Huns, Vandals, etc. If you ask a modern German "what is your tribe?" he would be puzzled by such a question. Same for China. China is "Han China" and a citizen of Beijing would be also be puzzled by a question about his "tribal grouping". In Ethiopia there is constant conflict between Omoro and Amharic. In Nigeria, always oppositional forces between the Muslim Hausa, and the South--Yoruba and Igbo--essentially. Same in South Africa, the Congo, and Sudan. That vicious war in South Sudan is due to identity affiliations that are not compatible with the idea of the modern nation state. At the back of all this is the lack of any modernizing ideology. Just pervasive greed, corruption, general stupidity, narrow ethnocentrism and naive affiliations to the pernicious impacts of Arab cultural imperialism in the form of Islam and European Christianity. One question though is this: how was the U.S. able to eventually create a society based on the "unification of Europe" in terms of its inputs from all over the European world? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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