View Single Post
  #5  
Old Saturday, January 08, 2011
venom's Avatar
venom venom is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Islamabad
Posts: 143
Thanks: 95
Thanked 100 Times in 72 Posts
venom will become famous soon enoughvenom will become famous soon enough
Default To be or not to be :)

"A nation is a grouping of people who share real or imagined common history, culture, language or ethnic origin, often possessing or seeking its own government".

"A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock"

And so on and on, but what all these definitions are trying to covey this, that, people who are alike in there history, culture or language are considered to be a nation.
There are counter definitions too, in which emphasis is on that, inhabitants of same land with keeping difference in there language, history and culture but governed by a same system are considered as nation.America is one of its example.
But when similarities are weak then differences then it will not be considered as a nation, and so the case of Pakistan is.
We are groups of people with different approaches our interests.
The only similarity is religion but it also subdivided in sects which creates a difference, then language , norms and culture history.
So all these things which exist here are trying to say that we are groups of people with differences but live and governed by same state and fallow the same rule of state.
So on one hand we are a nation and other hand we are not a nation.
__________________
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon

Last edited by venom; Saturday, January 08, 2011 at 03:11 PM. Reason: To be or not to be :)
Reply With Quote
The Following User Says Thank You to venom For This Useful Post:
SYEDA SABAHAT (Monday, January 10, 2011)