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**SusanSazzios** · 08-28-2011, 07:45 PM

Nonsense. Maybe some eastern Europeans do have some German blood, but Germans themselves are heavy mix of various ethnic groups, so like I said in another thread, it's very hard to define "German blood" in the first place.

Before the era of bourgeois revolutions western Europe was comprised mostly of empires, but with the rise of modern nations-states things started to get complicated. French started the trend declaring all people living in France as French nation. Without the king and the Church, there was very little actually that would held them all together. So they came up with nationalism.

Others followed, such as Germans, they needed to reinvent "the German nation" in order to unify "the German lands", so they declared all German speaking people as Germans.

08-28-2011, 07:45 PM	#2
SusanSazzios Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 632 Senior Member	Nonsense. Maybe some eastern Europeans do have some German blood, but Germans themselves are heavy mix of various ethnic groups, so like I said in another thread, it's very hard to define "German blood" in the first place. Before the era of bourgeois revolutions western Europe was comprised mostly of empires, but with the rise of modern nations-states things started to get complicated. French started the trend declaring all people living in France as French nation. Without the king and the Church, there was very little actually that would held them all together. So they came up with nationalism. Others followed, such as Germans, they needed to reinvent "the German nation" in order to unify "the German lands", so they declared all German speaking people as Germans.
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