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> This has nothing to do with nationalism

A nation is just a larger tribe - people are more closely related to others in their own nation, than to those in foreign nations.

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"people are more closely related to others in their own nation, than to those in foreign nations." Thank you mister Obvious. But the first part of your sentence just serves your desires by an over-simplification and reduction of the topic. No, a nation is not a larger tribe.

Just try to explain all the atrocities which happened in Africa since colonialists retired from the continent.

Try to keep several tribes inside the same border of a nation, and see the Rwanda result... :)

Why does treating a nation as an extended tribe require explaining atrocities in Africa?

If someone claimed a tribe is an extended family, would you demand he explain family feuds?

Because when the central power which designed the border and defined them as a nation, is going away, old tribal tension and conflict are resurging. Leading to inter-tribe genocide. Therefore, tribalism has nothing to do with nationalism... :)

You are missing the point. He's explicitly saying those _States_ aren't _Nations_. Hence the term "Nation-State" where a state is coterminous with a nation.

I'm curious as to what extent this sense of feeling closely related is also a product of ideology and further how it's reacting to globalization. Can this feeling of closeness be tied to particular biological factors, and how do we know if it can? How is it that many of us (especially online) feel much closer to individuals from other places than to our own countrypeople?

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