Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The Joy of *small* business Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 12:06:15 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <6ed4a801-da2b-22f9-8251-eea654dd4046@example.net> References: <19ebc64d-c683-a046-e19b-9cdc51c81226@example.net> <1248675b-e38a-04a7-93b3-6fa527725858@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="4092753"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:62898 On Sat, 21 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote: > 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!" This lesson also applied to africa.