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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

MY Country

"Fuck you got mine" mentality here

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The country of ... Puerto Rico??

A nation perhaps but why TF is he calling it a country

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Because no one calls where they live a nation? Country is the generic people term for place you live, we don't care about the legal distinctions and specifications.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's less of a legal distinction and more of a definition thing. He is objectively using the wrong word.

It would not be incorrect to refer to the people of Puerto Ricans as a nation by the definition of the word. The word nation does not refer to a place but a group of people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Both words refer to both concepts.

country

  1. A nation or state. 
  2. The territory of a nation or state; land. 
  3. The people of a nation or state; populace.

nation

  1. A relatively large group of people organized under a single, usually independent government; a country. 
  2. The territory occupied by such a group of people.
  3. The government of a sovereign state.
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This definition is not fully correct. A nation does not need to have a government. For example the Kurds

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

Edit: also Kurdistan exists

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

They used the right word in common speak, any other word would feel out of place.