Language provides clarity with definitions.
If we have no clarity, no definitions and no boundaries we cannot define ourselves and cannot communicate with others of matters of interest.
I am therefore asking. What is your understanding or defintion of
A nation
A nationality
A country
A people
A race
A state
Taking this one step further once we have reached consensus in the above defintions which nation/country/state/people today can define themselves appropriately according to set and defined criteria?
In an era where a woman can have a penis and a man can be pregnant it is language that will save or destroy us.
Go !
I am inviting u/free-will-of-choice to join in the debate.
Language....the English language especially is a double speak language. Our terms and shit have dual meanings. And more importantly. Our words can do Magick. Intention on the words spoken matters.
A Nation is where many people of either a local nationality live, maintaining social and cultural norms.
A Nationality is where where ancestors/family come from, it carries certain languages and also certain traditions and customs.
A country is basically interchangeable with nation.
A People: is anyone is Us, is them.......We are all people. And we should all respect eachother.
A race is a genetic heritage passed through blood lineage that manefests in the dermis of the person. Heriteges and cultures pass along accordingly.
A state. This is tricky. This is a border of a nation. Where the inhabitants have their own local customs and traditions. And other geographical differences from the rest of the "country/nation. Where local governances help in "aiding" smaller scale than Nation/Country in most cases.
We are all people? So there is no...let's say...American people or Japanese people?
Are we all American people? Are we all Jpanese people? Are we undefined people?
When the new King Charles III referred in his speech to the peoples (plural) of Britain who did he refer to or what did he mean?