The funny part about this is that the single thing this is most true of is China, where in the like 1600's Europeans would be in like rural areas and ask people about living in China and they'd be like what the fuck are you talking about.

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Probably the single most impactful thing the Chinese nationalists in the early 1900's did was adopt the European conception of China and build their own mythological history of it as a single, coherent nation state with a 5,000 year history.

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The CCP essentially took this project up and forged the new Chinese nation state in the image of Europe. Now you will get tankies talking about this as a way to deny Han chauvinism because the category Han includes a shit ton of different

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languages and cultures but that's true of all national ethnicities. The project of nationalism is about destroying those differences and creating a single image of a Frenchmen who speaks French (and not the thousand other languages that ensured

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that at the time of the French Revolution French was basically just the language of Paris) or a Han Chinese man (and in nationalist projects it's always a man) who speaks Mandarin and isn't Hakka or Cantonese or Wu. Nationalists erase these

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cultural and linguistic differences through incredible violence and at their most successful no one even remembers that there was once an incredible multitude of people where now there are one. This isn't to say that ethnic groups don't exist, and

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the Kurds are a pretty good example of one that's existed for a long time, it's about how when nationalist historiography encounters an ethnic group that hasn't had its diversity smashed out of it it assumes that the group itself is fake.

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That nationalist project of erasure and assimilation through violence is the project of the nation state and it's one of the big reasons why Kurdish leftists abandoned the nation state as a model. They have a quip about how getting a nation state

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