The etymology of "Nation" leads us through the connections between race, gender, native languages, grammar, and much more. A collaboration with the Cynical Historian; watch his video about the origins of the nation state and American national myths here:    • Nationalism Began in the 19th Century...  

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00:00:00 Intro
00:00:17 The etymology of "Nation"
00:02:00 Cynical Historian on the Nation State
00:02:45 The etymology of "State"
00:04:20 The etymology of "Kingdom"
00:07:11 Foundation Myths
00:08:40 National epics
00:10:20 Thomas Jefferson and Old English
00:11:48 Cynical Historian on Nativism
00:13:40 The term "Anglo-Saxon"
00:20:10 The etymology of "Race"
00:23:37 Horses and Indo-Europeans
00:25:35 Indigenous Aryans Theory
00:29:45 Domestication and the etymology of "Agriculture"
00:32:03 The etymology of "Civilization"
00:37:54 The etymology of "Genocide"
00:40:29 Native and indigenous languages
00:44:32 Linguistic prescriptivism
00:46:36 Language and dialect
00:51:04 Metaphors for relationships between languages
00:56:35 Creoles and pidgins
01:01:20 Proto-Germanic as a pidgin
01:03:55 Grammatical categories, inflections, cases
01:09:25 Grammatical gender
01:16:05 Pronouns in English