10-25-2015, 01:46 PM
(10-25-2015, 12:29 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: It's nationalism just as we saw in Europe. The difference is that Europeans were allowed to create their own borders that respected ethnicities. These Middle Eastern areas, though, had groups forced together. When religion is the only thing you have in common, it is going to be the driving force of your nationalism.
I had never thought of it that way, but it makes sense. I mean, even when we look at the former HRE and the history of that region, they made their own boundaries really and chose with whom they wanted to share the descriptor German, for instance.
