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Re: As Is (was: Re: Concurrency)

From:Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>
Date:Monday, December 24, 2001, 17:38
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> State: sovereign entity. With exception of a few countries (like > the US or Australia), it's quite synonymous with nation or country. > Compared to those words, I tend (but that's because that's how it's > taken in French) to take it as meaning: all the administrations that > rule the country, that's to say the government, the parlement, the > ministries, etc... all put together, while nation refers more to the > people and country to the physical area.
The notion that one nation corresponds to one state, and vice versa, is quite recent - and might still provoke laughter in many countries. -- Anton Sherwood -- http://www.ogre.nu/