You’re taking yourself in circles. So far you have established that America is not a nation based on a retarded definition. Nice appeal to authority by the way. You can’t articulate the difference between a race and a nation. And you can’t tell me what nation your ancestors belonged to before America. It feels repetitive and annoying for you because it illustrates the retarded logic you follow and your stubbornness to be right. You most definitely can change nations. The ancestors of Americans belonged to European nations before they even knew the United States existed. A lot of Americans don’t even remember who their ancestors were or where they came from. What you stubbornly refuse to admit is that what is referred to by the Kurds and Israelis as “nation,” can also simply be referred to as just their race or ethnic group.

The definition of nation: a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory. The definition of country: a nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory. The definition of territory: an area of land under the jurisdiction of a ruler or state. The definition of nationalism: identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations. So a nation IS a particular country or territory. A country/territory is unified by a government. And nationalism is identification with that country/territory. What makes it a nation/country/territory IS the government. So nationalism is pride in being ruled by a specific government. It is the preference of your ruler over another ruler. So yes nationalism is Stockholm syndrome. I can’t make it any simpler for you than that. @DRE @Kendy