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Japan and China just be lying about being several thousand years old, I guess.
Even if you consider each Chinese dynasty to be a distinct nation (I wouldn’t, but even if you did) there are several dynasties that lasted well over 250 years.
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The house I grew up in is much older than the USA’s inependance. It’s not the oldest building in town.
The town’s church is ~300 years older than Christopher Collumbus’ arrival in the Americas. If it didn’t burn twice, and didn’t had to be rebuilt twice, if would have been a few 100s of years older.
There are countless towns and cities with buildings older than the USA at every street corner here. That person obviously never been to Europe.
yeah the town i grew up in celebrated its 750th recently. it’s not even close.
In Japanese tradition, you count the age of the building’s soul. Even if it burns down and you rebuild it, the age of the building doesn’t reset to 0.
I don’t have any references for this, just my experience.
i’d say this sorta applies in the rest of the world, if it’s rebuilt in the right way people will go “it’s 1200 years old but it got bombed to shit and rebuilt after WW2”
Just because the alignment of nation and state into nation state happened to innovate around the late 18th century, like the US independence, does not mean that the US is the only nation (state) from that era.
There is not much information density in the idea that “no nation existed for longer than 250 years” when the very idea of nation state is as old itself and nations (or nationes) and states existed for much, much longer than that.
The primary school I went to is 333 years old.
Even the yanks on Lemmy seem pretty oblivious to the concept of other countries at best.
The Ottomans would like a word I think, and maybe the Assyrians
If we’re being pedantic (and why not!) then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is actually only 103 years old.
If we’re being fair, a government running without revolution for 250 years is pretty old. Many of the oldest establishments in the US are likely to stand after a revolution or civil war, much like pubs and restaurants in Europe.
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