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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The Joy of *small* business
Date: 21 Dec 2024 21:45:22 GMT
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On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 09:54:27 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

> Absolutely yes. People group themselves in all sorts of ways: shared
> language, shared religion, shared territory, shared enemy, shared
> preferred computing platform. Pretty much anything you can think of.

Shared territory, or civic nationalism, appears to have its limits. The 
aftermath of WWI showed you can't draw lines on a map and say 
'Congratulations! You're a country!"