Americans tend to use

“ Americans tend to use "nation" as a synonym for "country." But political scientists and historians, as well as many Europeans, tend to use the term for a much more specific phenomenon: a group of people who feel they belong together, whether they have a country of their own or not. ”

Robert Lane Greene
  • From : You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches
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