A nation may refer to a community of people who share a common language, culture, ethnicity, descent, or history. In this definition, a nation has no physical borders. However, it can also refer to people who share a common territory and government (for example the inhabitants of a sovereign state) irrespective of their ethnic make-up. In international relations, nation can refer to a country or sovereign state. The word nation can more specifically refer to people of North American Indians, such as the Cherokee Nation that prefer this term over the contested term tribe.
According to Joseph Stalin writing in 1913 in Marxism and the National Question: "a nation is not a racial or tribal, but a historically constituted community of people;" "a nation is not a casual or ephemeral conglomeration, but a stable community of people;" "a common language is one of the characteristic features of a nation;" "a nation is formed only as a result of lengthy and systematic intercourse, as a result of people living together generation after generation;" "a common territory is one of the characteristic features of a nation;" "a common economic life, economic cohesion, is one of the characteristic features of a nation;" "a common psychological make-up, which manifests itself in a common culture, is one of the characteristic features of a nation;" "A nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture." According to Stalin, this would exclude Jews as they have no common territory.
hay your country needs you
they give you weapons
and they send you abroad
just to fight for another mans country
and steal the things that he can't afford
a government full of promise
never made me feel at home
and in a system
that abused me
left me standing on my own
well i may not have a fancy car no
and i may not own my own home
but my choice of paths to follow
will always be my own
oh yeah
who's gonna save the nations
how we gonna save the nations
oh yeah
how we gonna save the nations
Nations come together as one,
Forming candles in the sun.
The candle burns deep inside his head,
His wax mind is finally dead.
His wax mind they all had learned,
Secrets of those that burned,
In the valleys with a gun,
They still didn't reach the sun.
Nations come together as one,
Sending killers on the run,
Controlling the crowd,
They take the killers'
place bold and proud.
Even if I wasn't dead,
I'd see the dying straight ahead,
believe in your destiny,
Life is not, you seem to be.
Nations come together as one,
chase the children on to the desert,
Let them frizzle away and fry,
Although in their mothers eye,
We can do or say anything,
As long as we're allowed to think.
Let's make an example of them all,
Take the institution down to a fall!