I’m serious. I don’t understand why humans draw imaginary bidders. I don’t understand why humans fight and lose their lives defending those borders. It’s not “cultural identity”. For example, people in either side of Punjab are more similar to each other than say people in the South of India. And further, i don’t understand how countries can be bought and sold like the “Louisiana purchase”. I mean who’s paying for what? It would be great if someone could recommend some books about the idea of nationhood.
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For people to work together they need rules. Rules say things like “This is how we do things, this is what’s allowed, this is what’s not allowed, these are things people in our group have to do”.
Government is the way very large groups of people make the rules to organize what we do together.
And not every group of people wants the same rules. So this group of people has one set of rules and another group has a different set of rules.
It makes sense for the rules to be tied to a place and not just the group of people. For instance, one simple rule is which side of the road you drive on. Imagine if two groups of people lived in the same town. One group makes a rule that you have to drive on the left side of the street. The other group makes a rule that you have to drive on the right side of the street. Driving in that town would be VERY dangerous!
So we draw lines to divide where each group makes the rules.
A country has it’s own rules, and within it there are often smaller units that follow those rules and get to make more their own way, like states and towns.
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