Word: nationhoods
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...China, anything resembling nationhood was understood only in terms of a kind of superfamily, with the Emperor as the patriarch. Ultimately, in the Confucian view, all government was based on virtue. So long as the head of the great Chinese family was virtuous, all was well with the land; but if the country fared ill, it must be because the Emperor had fallen into evil ways and the "mandate of heaven" had been withdrawn. That was the traditional rationale for the periodic rebellions that brought down every Chinese dynasty. Mencius, a revered follower of Confucius, proclaimed the people...
...millions of teenagers are to be housed, fed, clothed, and set to gainful employment is nowhere discussed. Who is to teach them, in Miss Mead's words, to be "citizens alert to the problems and responsibilities of nationhood in a rapidly changing world," no one knows. That it is right to teach them this euphemism for plain old Americanism is assumed...
...when it came to forming a national compact, none of the 13 colonies felt themselves provinces within the new nation. Each state joined the union as an act of consent, not of compulsion, and each, as the tide of nationhood moved westward, came to think of itself as more self-reliant than its brothers to the East...
...their elders. The central Vietnamese, encouraged by General Vinh Loc, II Corps commander, were trying to put together a bloc to protect their interests against the north and the south. All told, some 60 to 70 political parties provided the setting of South Viet Nam's venture into nationhood as the Assembly set to work...
...arguing among themselves over internal secession from the region; Western leaders were despondent; even the tiny Mid-West-originally the only insistent voice in favor of federation-was getting cold feet. Any hopes of quick consensus were fading fast, and with the resumption of rioting, the entire fabric of nationhood was fading as well...