• Hawke@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

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

      Edit: also Kurdistan exists

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        14 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.