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> If this is your sort of goalpost, then even relatively homogenous countries like Germany and Italy shouldn't really exist today, given that they only coalesced in the late 19th century.

The strength of modern state propaganda is such that people have developed all kinds of crazy notions about history. The nation state is a modern invention and this involves myth building about the country going back to ancient times.

The French spoken in southern France had much more in common with northern Italian. Its just common sense that it would be so. Modern French was forced down it's subjects just like Urdu in Pakistan, Standardized Mandarin in China and ongoing attempts for Hindu in India.

The state has been elevated to the status of a mythical quasi religious entity.

https://youtu.be/hdUbIlwHRkY




For your edification w.r.t. India : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33556881

A person who equates Mandarin:China :: Hindu:India has no clue about either.


It's a typo: I meant Hindi-India. In any case, I won't be responding to ultra nationalist, religion supremacist, right wing trolls anymore. So you can take your "edifications" and random articles elsewhere.


Sigh; again with the name-calling ad hominem attacks from an anonymous account.

Reminds me of this : https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/17/remain-silent/




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