>>12947824France is likewise a country of immigrants. The Gauls of old who wandered France thousands of years ago are gone, and have mixed with foreign Italian and Germanic groups after the Roman and Germanic conquests of France. Or do you not consider the ethnically-Italian Napoleon, the greatest conqueror in history, to not be the French?
>>12947828Americans believe that America is one nation under God, they don't think that America is a multi-national state at all. Canadians are more likely to identify Canada as being multi-national, but most still think of Canada as a nation-state.
So by your definition, the UK isn't a nation-state? It is of course formed by Englishmen, Scots, the Welsh and the Irish.
