Originally Posted by
Tiaexz
"Working" is very subjective.
I am sure if you started asking the Skanes or Sami people in Sweden you start hearing about a history of oppression by the Swedes and denial of cultural heritage and refusal of the state to be officially recognised as minorities until recently. There are other examples of it not working: Ukraine being a high profile one. The Kosovo question with Serbia and the breakaway regions of Georgia. You also have 'Britain' which is split up into English, Welsh and Scottish, with the Scots and Wales wanting devolution and independence, including Cornwall. Within England there is the North/South divide then there is even the Red-White rose divide between counties. I can start to continue to other areas such as Spain, France, Germany. I can start to point to the wars of nationalist imperialism in the 19th and 20th Century.
So with a great number of factors involved, on what level is it actually 'working' ?
As Rhy correctly said, you can talk how there is a need for better cooperation, we need to associate ourselves with our neighbours. So nations evolved and mostly played a big part with the rise of faster communications and transport, in the form of industrialisation and the rail-networks. With our present system where communication is almost instantaneous from one side of the world to another, we can in many respects go 'larger' and talk about global governance and conflict resolution. As seen with the pitfalls of nationalism, this would require a decentralised government, but the whole pretense of 'British' 'German' 'French' could simply be abandoned in the modern age and treat everyone equally as human beings.
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