Nation

The Nation and the Ethnic group are the most salient identity markers in European community politics.

Nationalization
The Holocaust (literally a burnt offering to the gods) was the pinnacle of European nationalism and led to the current set of borders between European nations. The Holocaust and the subsequent migration of peoples during the European civil war (1933 - 1948), which sandwiched World War II purified the populations of the European nations. The Jews, Romas and other non-Nationed diasporic ethnic groups were brutally slaughtered and peoples who had a nation were ‘repatriated’ to the nation of their ethnic group’s origin.

 

Truly, the holocaust was a burnt offering to the gods - the carcasses of Jews and Roma were sufficient for the gods, granting the European people their nations with which to quarrel about freely. It is important to note that this term derives from the ancient Greek civilization, and so it is yet another example of invoking polytheism in the supposedly monotheistic Christian world.

The modern nation state was born in Europe and here in Europe it achieve a platonic ideal - ethnolinguistic purity is extremely important - with French reformation of local languages and Italian adopting Tuscan as the language of choice and administration. German unification of dialects. While other nation states existed (such as the Tang dynasty), they lacked the continuous warfare with neighbors that allowed European nation states to persist and spore.