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A threads post saying āThere has never been another nation ever that has existed much beyond 250 years. Not a single one. Americaās 250th year is 2025. The next 4 years are gonna be pretty interesting considering everything thatās already been said.ā It has a reply saying āMy local pub is older than your countryā.
āIn the UK, 100 kilometers is a long way. In the USA, 100 years is a long time.ā
the u.s. is āyoungā, relative to the world stage, this is true; but its constitution is among the oldest in the worldā¦ and it is starting to show its age.
Yeah, this is a misunderstanding among conservatives. Our legal system and government structure is woefully outdated, but our country is really young.
Itās like a teen athlete being really proud that he has the oldest sneakers of all the competitors.
Worse, itās like a teen athlete being really proud that he has the world record for best stickballer, so he drops out of school to play stickball full time.
Then when everybody else wants to play an actual sport with actual rules where people wear helmets and donāt die, suddenly the teen starts starts swinging his stick through peopleās windows and at peopleās heads.
Your analogy has nothing to do with the topic. The topic is about the age of the countries, and their constitutions.
Constitutionalism is a new idea. Pioneered by America. Of course America will have the oldest until it collapses.
England? If we talk about nations that became part of other nations, venice, lots of former city states in germany are even older
England still doesnāt have a constitution. Itās just a pile of old laws.
It was āshowing its ageā a not long after it was made. Two years later the French based their first written constution on the US one. Then other nations followed suit over the years and wanted their own, and they already thought the French one was the better option as a starting point.
In fairness, given that the French are currently on their fifth attempt at a republic, the other nations were arguably wrong.
Iād say if you measure success by being able to change and try again instead of trying to keep a dead thing alive then maybe they were right
Colloseum: Am I joke to you?
China: lol, lmao
The Peopleās Republic of China will be 76 years old this October.
The OP is wrong because there are a few existing nations older than 250 years, but there arenāt many of them. As far as countries go, the United States is over the hill.
Its nonsense. China as a national and cultural entity is not 76 years old. Changing constitutions does not make it a different country, it is only americans who adhere to that belief system because their country didnt exist prior to their constitution.
Its nonsense. China as a national and cultural entity is not 76 years old. Changing constitutions does not make it a different country,
Yes, it does. Country and Nation are not synonyms. Country refers to Government while Nation is about culture.
China as a Nation, that is a people with a shared culture and languages, is thousands of years old. China as a Country is less than 100 years old.
ā¦it is only americans who adhere to that belief system because their country didnt exist prior to their constitution.
Since you are presumably not American how would you answer this question: How old is Panama?
Because the concept of a nation state is not much older, no? American Independence and French Revolution were among the first movements.
Isnāt it kinda interesting, that the first nation is still a thing? France is in itās 5th iteration.
