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Entry: What Is Nationalism? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/what_is_nationalism#29337 Post contents: Mr. Larison, you're right of course that the Armenians eventually demanded and got a state. I should have said that the Armenian nationalists didn't <i>initially</i> demand a state, and in fact some of them emphasized that fact to the Turks (not that it helped them any). My point is still that <i>early</i> Armenian nationalism was nationalism by any reasonable definition, despite its lack of demand for a nation-state. To repeat, though, that's a relatively minor objection to your definition. My real objection is the circularity of defining nationalism in terms of the vague and undefined concept of "a people". Sent at: 2009 01 08