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In the most basic sense, a nation is a philosophical doctrine whose purpose is to unite a group of people under a common set of values – promoting some common interest or identity. I believe the term has been used lightly, and rather ambiguously, almost where the general public believes that "country, state, and land" all are roughly equivalent to what a nation is. However, not all groups of people can be considered nations. While there are different views on what requirements need to be met to constitute a nation, there are a few fundamentally accepted views. The original etymological root of the word refers to a people unified by birth and origins. Nations are formed when an identity of common descent, language, culture, values, history or religion is achieved.
In this sense, we can define it (not exclusively, necessarily) by an innate characteristic that all members of the group share. The implicative requirement here is that there must be characteristics shared between......

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