From: Ad 

Robert Comer wrote:
>> The sioux nation? Reminds a little of the Eddie Izzard argument wrt "do
>> you have a flag....?"
>
> You I've heard nation, but it's not so much a political entity like
> we're talking about.  "First nation" is what I hadn't heard.
>

e.g. in Africa:

Were the Swazi a tribe & thus Swaziland is merely a tribal entity or a
nation ergo Swaziland is a bona fide nation?

>> Indeed. Mexico was a state / part of a state & yet....a whole load of
>> illegal immigrants followed by violent action by those illegals et voila
>> the US South West.
>
> Not sure I get you point here...
>

Your argument seems to hinge on the predicate of "nation".

Mexico was a nation e.g. it had a flag.

The Mexicans were & had been for a long while a nation (via the Spanish
Empire & previously via the Aztecs etc).

Adam

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