- published: 06 May 2016
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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.
I don't need no evidence
I've got my self confidence
So you don't have to say a word
You don't need to judge this girl
Come down you, you old teacher
and I´ll give, I´ll give you a lecture
Come down you, you old leader
Come and look what you've done
To my nation
Let's call it self defence
A call for happy ending
But each side steps and says
je regrette rien
don't say It
don't say you don´t regret a thing
don't say you don't regret a thing
you could be my sister my brother and I
won't let you go
Don't say you don't regret a thing
Don't say you don't regret a thing
But each side steps and said
je regrette rien
Don't say It
je ne regrette rien.
Born in an haunted nation
since when was War a passion
Born with a fighting rebound on them
Now look what it's done
Done to our nations, lets say it
Let say it...
don't say you don´t regret a thing
don't say you don't regret a thing
don't say you don't regret a thing
you could be my sister my brother and I won't let you go
But each side steps and said
je regrette rien
Don't say it
Je ne regrette rien rien...