Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
Appositions are something entirely different. Everything you said afterward is invalid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apposition

Apposition is a grammatical construction in which two elements, normally noun phrases, are placed side by side, with one element serving to identify the other in a different way. The two elements are said to be in apposition.
I may be wrong about many things, but the language (English in particular) is what I consider to be my special province.

Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post

However, the modern economic framework has become badly frayed and people are left to focus on their identity partisanship and resistance against perceived hostile identities. An obvious outlet of that would be into nationalism and parochialism in general.
If a nation has had its identity for quite a time, it (the nation) tends to grow acquisitive as to other identities. Thus the tendency towards internationalisation prevails. The nations who have been robbed of their identity and whose identities are in the state of shaping expose an opposite tendency - nationalism. In modern Europe both tendencies are evident within one supernational formation (the EU) which causes tensions were are witnessing.