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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by dragonwriter on Sunday July 15, 2018 @07:14PM (#17537631)
> but then again "nations" themselves aren't that old.

Nations are, nationalism and nation-states (which are different but related phenomena) aren't.

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by ekianjo on Sunday July 15, 2018 @09:10PM (#17538058)
No, the whole concept of national identity is very recent, starting from early 1800s for some parts of Europe. Longer than that you had tribal factions or regional identities and that is it.
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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by dragonwriter on Sunday July 15, 2018 @10:27PM (#17538346)
> No, the whole concept of national identity is very recent

No, it's not, though some current national identities are. The idea of Israel as a nation (distinct from either a state or regional identity), for instance, is at least as old as the Old Testament.

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by awinder on Sunday July 15, 2018 @09:40PM (#17538174)
How was the unified Greek state different if you don’t mind me asking?
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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by ekianjo on Monday July 16, 2018 @07:58PM (#17546199)
which era are you refering to? ancient greece was not a unified state. the common denominator what the city. Athenians were clearly not considering themselves like belonging to the same group as Spartans.
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