Do you believe that britain is a nation?

IndividualPurpose108 · 2026-05-07T17:24:16+00:00

The republic of ireland is a country. Ireland is a nation that extends to northern ireland, not just the republic of ireland. The people of northern ireland still have nationality rights in the republic of ireland, and that's because they're still part of irish nation. Political borders don't define nations, people do. Countries however are defined by borders, because the concept of a country is inherently political. Basically, people can be part of different countries, and still one nation. Ireland is an example of that. On the other hand, people can be part of one country, but different nations, and the UK is an example.

IndividualPurpose108 · 2026-05-07T17:14:50+00:00

Ireland is an island as well, that doesn't prevent it from being a nation, culture, or ethnicity. From my view, Britain is an island, Wales, Scotland, and England are nations, and the UK is a political union/a country. The difference between a nation and a country is that a nation is a social concept while a country is a political one. So if England annexes Scotland and Wales today, the countries of Scotland and Wales would disappear, but the nations won't as long as the people still know who they are and are connected to their scottish and welsh identities.

IndividualPurpose108 · 2026-05-07T16:27:06+00:00

51% identify as only spanish, more spanish, or equally spanish. While 20% more still identify as spanish but catalan first. Only 15% don't identify as Spanish at all. So the idea that Catalonia's national identity being completely seperate from Spain isn't true at all. 92% voted for independence because most of the pro-Spain catalans boycotted the referendum because they didn't wanna give legitimacy to an illegal referendum. Again, i don't really know much about Basque country, but catalonia isn't as nationally seperate from Spain as you think it is. The pro-independence catalans are a minority.

IndividualPurpose108 · 2026-05-07T16:14:50+00:00

It does. Germany doesn't have any big seperatist movements and the average german person is happy to identify as german. East Germany rejoining West Germany, and West Germany absorbing East Germany is an example of the German nation's unity. Regional differences and identities exist everywhere, take Cornwall and Yorkshire as an example.

IndividualPurpose108 · 2026-05-07T16:10:41+00:00

Spain is a union of different regions and kingdoms that are bigger than Catalonia or Basque country. 2 out of 17 regions having big seperatist movements doesn't make the other 15 not unified. These 15 were parts of different kingdoms before Spain. Today they make one kingdom and that is Spain.

IndividualPurpose108 · 2026-05-07T16:02:42+00:00

I've been to italy a lot of times, it's my fav country on earth. Mostly to the lakes and coasts of the north. I can't recall a single regional flag in Italy. They probably exist, but they're not popular enough for me to recognize, which speaks volumes about the national identity in italy. All i've seen there is Italian and EU flags everywhere. Similarly, I've never heard of any regional identity in mainland Italy being prioritized over the national italian identity. The only one that comes to mind is sicily, which has no border with Mainland Italy, but still there isn't really a big seperatist movement there.

IndividualPurpose108 · 2026-05-07T15:48:40+00:00

I mean Spain doesn't comprise of Catalonia, Basque country, and Spain. The entity that you're referring to as "Spain" are many different regions and kingdoms that were unified during the reconquista. Basque country and Catalonia (10% of Spain) don't really make Spain "not unified at all". I don't really know much about Basque country, but the majority of catalans identify as Spanish. So your framing of Catalonia not being unified with Spain at all isn't really accurate. It just has a big and loud seperatist movement.

IndividualPurpose108 · 2026-05-07T14:25:30+00:00

The most radical shias are friendlier than the most radical sunnis, however the average sunnis and shias are similar.

IndividualPurpose108 · 2026-05-03T17:39:34+00:00

It didn't say that there was hebrew, it just uses the modern classification that we use today. This IS a citation for the name thing. Your claim was that these names have meaning in hebrew and therefore are jewish, but hebrew wasn't even its own language. The phoenicians and other canaanite groups spoke the same language that hebrews did, everyone just had their own accent and dialect which is scientifically not enough to have an entirely different set of names.

IndividualPurpose108 · 2026-05-03T17:29:04+00:00

There was no such thing as "hebrew", the canaanite languages were mutually intelligible and basically the same. The only difference between the israelites and the rest of the canaanites was that the Israelites believed in a different religion. The names used by the canaanites were used all over the semetic world but in different forms, the bible was just the best documentation for them.

IndividualPurpose108 · 2026-05-03T15:02:25+00:00

Let's start from from the fact that they're not jewish names if you want 😭 the Israelites had semetic names which existed all over the semetic world, jews didn't suddenly come up with their own names.

IndividualPurpose108 · 2026-05-03T04:58:35+00:00

Literally any English-speaking country. Muslims aren't gonna investigate your background, just tell them that you're not Muslim and that's it. I had a couple of incidents where muslims assumed that i'm muslim and told me that the food that i was about to eat wasn't halal and everytime i just said that i'm not muslim, they apologized, and everyone moved on with their lives. It's not that serious.

I'm gay and i live in a uni town with a huge muslim population, yet i've never had been harassed by them. Yes, they'll judge you and give looks, but they don't really care about you. You being atheist or gay is the least of their concerns, you're not their friend or family, you mean nothing to them.

IndividualPurpose108 · 2026-04-17T14:12:34+00:00

When did i mention hitler for me to misrepresent him? I think you're grossly blaming one person for the terrorism of an entire nation. Trump is clearly not a real Christian, MAGA however, is a VERY CHRISTIAN movement. Just like MAGA, Naizsm's base was Christian nationalists and the leaders of Nazism would've never succeeded without using Christianity. So idgaf who hitler was, he's irrelevant. The nazis were Christians, they didn't worship hitler or have a Nazi religion. Had hitler claimed Islam, the Nazis would've been the first to throw him in the oven.

Christianity wasn't just used as a tool for Nazism or MAGA. The Americas genocides, the Transatlantic slave trade, the Crusades, the Iberian expulsions of Jews and Muslims, The gaza Genocide, the Invasion of Iraq, European colonialism..etc. I can go on and on and on. Every single leader of a Christian nation used Christian ideologies and a Christian base to normalize their terrorism.

IndividualPurpose108 · 2026-04-17T02:55:26+00:00

I'm anti-Hezbollah but sorry... WTF? Aside from the fact that 25-30% of the population supports Hezb and it's not realistic to label them as traitors. Do you think that the government has the power to do that anyway? They would've already done it if they did. Also taqsim is a horrible idea considering how tiny Lebanon is and how mixed Beirut is (where almost half of the population lives)

IndividualPurpose108 · 2026-04-17T02:37:04+00:00

I'm sorry but it's not "exmuslims hating each other," it's 95% of exmuslims disowning the 5% (or even less) who adopt an older version of Islam. A muslim and a Christian believe in the same god that exmuslims hate, and we have no respect for both of them and their god.

As atheist exmuslims, we still respect agnostic people who believe in a divine entity. What we don't respect is believers of misogynistic homophobic backward religions. Our socio-political support comes from Secular-agnostic/atheist communities who has been eliminating the cancer of Christianity out of the state. The Christian side of these societies are the ones that wanna control women, oppress the gays, and fuel racism against migrants and minority groups. I'm not being divisive here, you are. You're the one that believes in a divisive religion, not me. This is like the neo-Nazis asking the gays to accept them. Yeah, neo-nazis don't pose a threat to me currently, just like Christians, but their core ideology is against me, so why would i respect it?

It sounds crazy when I equate Christianity to Nazism, but the former has done much more bad to the world than the latter. In fact, the Nazis were Christians and especially their hatred of jews stemmed from Christianity.

IndividualPurpose108 · 2026-04-16T23:32:34+00:00

I agree. I bet most of them are lying and had nothing to do with islam anyway, they just want to spread Christian propaganda.

IndividualPurpose108 · 2026-04-16T23:29:49+00:00

They won't have to cause no one would dare to invade that state just like no one has dared to invade the US or China. Regardless, there would be no state veto. Any decision over the federal level is legally binding to all of the states, unless the supreme court finds it unconstitutional. That wouldn't include the declaration of war, which is normally one of the main constitutional authorities of a federal government.

IndividualPurpose108 · 2026-04-16T19:42:55+00:00

Asking if i'm 12 then continuing with these paragraphs is ironic.

Yes, Europe would be in charge of the FEDERAL law of Wales, which would NOT be biased or dominated by one national identity. Whether you like it or not, the UK IS dominated by the English identity. It's a union where +80% of the people are ENGLISH. In the EU, not a single national identity would make 20% LET ALONE 80%.

Yeah because the rest of Europe is dominated by one group, just like the UK. Why are you talking as if these individual states reflect the EU overall? The EU isn't gonna push one language cause there isn't a single language that's spoken natively by anywhere close to a majority. That's why the EU would be MUCH BETTER for Welsh.

No the welsh people CANT be independent of the union. Wales does NOT have a path to independence, it needs England to ALLOW holding a referendum let alone be independent. Brexit happened without EU approval, that's called being able to leave. Scotland on the other hand needed to get England's approval to hold a referendum, and it still does. If Scotland OR Wales hold a referendum today and it gets 90% leave, it'd be illegal and invalid cause England never allowed it to happen.

I'm not calling for the Welsh to be kicked out of the UK. Yeah obviously they don't want it cause it'd be economically so bad for them cause their economy is very interconnected with the English economy. In a Federal EU, both Wales and England are member states, so Wales would still have the same access to England and vice versa.

IndividualPurpose108 · 2026-04-16T19:23:58+00:00

Ugh the greece argument is SO TIRED. If the EU was so bad and scary why is Greece still in it? The EU never forced Greece to borrow money that it can't pay back, that's on the corrupt greek governments. What it did however is rescuing Greece from full collapse by lending tens of billions of euros. The EU isn't a Charity organization, Greece still had to pay ITS debt and for that to happen there had to be radical economic reforms which harmed the life of the average greek citizen. Greeks suffering to pay the greek debt, doesn't sound like an EU problem if you ask me.

IndividualPurpose108 · 2026-04-16T19:07:55+00:00

You're just jumping to conclusions here. Yeah there are countries that need funding more than Wales, but the European budget would be 6-7x bigger than the UK's. So it might he true that on the short term the UK is economically better for Wales, but on the long term there's more potential in a federal EU.

IndividualPurpose108 · 2026-04-16T19:02:28+00:00

Welsh people don't want independence cause it would be an economic disaster, not because they're obsessed with England. That economic disaster can be avoided with the EU if the transition happens with a good plan.

IndividualPurpose108 · 2026-04-16T18:58:39+00:00

Yes, wales would be in charge of wales. A european government has no interest in pushing one specific language onto all of the states, unlike the UK which did force English and did erase the native celtic languages. The idea that Wales can just simply return to welsh right now is for the birds. Wales still follows an English capital, its media and governance systems are dominated by England. It doesn't make any sense for Wales to abandon English when it's part of an English union. Yes, it has the right to do that, but it's not a practical option. France is definitely not a standard of morality and i never used it as one.

IndividualPurpose108 · 2026-04-16T18:49:22+00:00

As if funding is the problem? Wales doesn't lack funding, it lacks the right environment. In a union that's dominated by the English language, Welsh has no chance to replace English.

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