Nation-states are made up of mostly one ethno-linguistic & cultural group. I have extremely nitpicky standards and will colour you anything than blue if I spot one bit of ethnic differentiation between your cunt's demographics. These countries tend to be the most stable on average and when there's strife it's usually for some other reason. Nation-states with orange stripes are ones whose identities emerged recently or who assimilated other people inside of their state (also recently). Mostly the same as normal nation-states but can have some internal unrest (like France with the Occitans) or have some beef with neighbors that resemble them (Serbo-Crotians, East Slavs). Civilization-states are multiethnic but their identity comes from a wider shared history that's enough to hold the country together (the composite groups also tend to be related and similar). Normally only restricted to India and China, the term can infact apply to many European countries. Generally stable.
India isn't civilization state it's two civilization states combined(Northern Indo aryan-Southern Dravidian) with one ogga booga one(Burmo-Tibetan), North Indian civ is pretty different than Tamil civ actually
Grayson Murphy
Good map, but why didn't you put Kosovo, Macedonia, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Sudan as civilization states?
Jason Anderson
Oh wait I forgot to colour the small Mediterranean countries. Malta is blue. Rest are red. Cyprus would have been blue if it wasn't for you-know-what.
Gavin Phillips
we are 25% albanian and 30% muslim
Dylan Davis
Also Turkey and Bosnia should be Red
Tyler Stewart
>Nation-states are made up of mostly one ethno-linguistic & cultural group Why are the Stans blue then?
Benjamin Myers
>Russia >Nation-state
Jace Hernandez
>slovenes, norwegians and swedes are ethno-states >french, turks, serbs are not ethno-states sit on dick
Matthew Stewart
>kosovo Should be part of Albania. >macedonia Should be part of Bulgaria. >iraq Made up of three ethnic/linguistic groups. The "Arabs" have two subgroups that are split by north and south. >syria See above. West and East this time. >jordan Two ethnic groups (bedouin arabs and sedentary arabs). Ruled by a Bedouin elite. >israel Not homogeneous whether you nitpick Jewish subgroups or not. >sudan Not homogenous.
Michael Ramirez
>Turkey >ethno-state aka nation-state Really? Don’t they have quite a lot of minorities?
Asher Hill
>like France with the Occitans Are you drunk ?
Henry Edwards
They are. I just said they became so re recently.
Daniel Russell
They are mostly homogenous aside from Kazakhstan. I still colored the latter blue cause it's passable.
Zachary Garcia
Explain North Africa to me, how did you go about classifying the countries?
William Johnson
You have tons of unhappy Berbers. Morocco kinda does too but not as much. Libya is split by West vs. East (the civil war lines are not coincidence).
Jose Scott
France is a civilisation state going from your definition, the French Republic merely inherited the monarchy's borders.
Jace Ortiz
Cool map but Eritrea should be red (not homogenous nor civilisation) and Madagascar should be light blue (shared history).
Christian Davis
meh, I expected more thought to be put into that
Luis Cook
>Occitan separatism holy kek why are foreigners so funny
Michael Murphy
Well Morocco is orange because of all the dynastic history stuff and connections to Andalusia. It would have been if the Parisians didn't assimilate other groups post-revolution.
Hunter Morris
Ok but you still fit the definition.
Asher Harris
>you still fit my arbitrary foreign scum definition don't care I just came here to laugh at you
Brayden Gray
>Made up of three ethnic/linguistic groups. The "Arabs" have two subgroups that are split by north and south. Thailand has 5 main groups, and even "Thai" is separated to northern central and southern, I think you should research more and redo this map, or change your idea of a nation-state
Anthony Morales
SEA was indeed the hardest part and most I wasn't sure of. But I haven't heard of any intra-Thai unrest.
Dominic Sullivan
idk what you mean really the uk is perpetually at risk of balkanisation to varying levels