My Perspective

People all over the world have misconceptions about India including Indians. Unlike countries like Germany, Japan, Thailand, Bangladesh, India is not a nation-state. But we present her as a nation-state just because we compare India with other countries. But that's not true. Nation State Nation-State is a concept in which " nation " means people (ethnic group) and " state " means government or rule. In the old ages there use to be city-states, kingdoms and empires, which had nothing to do with culture or geography. All the lands possible to conquer were conquered, irrespective of culture. Nation-state emerged as a concept in which a country is a homeland of an ethnic people. Hence,  Germany (German people, German language, German cuisine, German culture), Italy (Italian people, Italian language, Italian cuisine, Italian culture), Japan (Japanese people, Japanese language, Japanese cuisine, Japanese culture.) But there are some countries  which do not fit