• abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    The UK was never a nation state to begin with. it’s traditions are are shallow as bathwater, mainly based around the Empire, which people are quickly realising is a bad thing. It’s four, some would even say five nations poorly stapled together with little interplay between the cultures. Each nation sees itself as it’s own thing with it’s own politics, identity, culture, ideologies, and even languages.

    The UK is about as much a nation state as Yugoslavia was.

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      9 months ago

      This comment is why you shouldnt get your geopolitical information from websites like Lemmy.

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      9 months ago

      The narrative that were all very different and could never get on is complete nationalism. Get on a train and explore. You’ll probably be surprised how good the cultural stapling between you and, say, someone who speaks Welsh as their first language actually is. It’s only the little Englanders and Scotsmen who barely leave their home county that act as if we hate each other.