Countries are also divided into civilized countries. What kind of country can be called a civilized country?

The concept of "civilized country", that is, today's China is already a "civilized country" that integrates "nation state" and "civilized country", and it is a country that combines the advantages of "nation state" and "civilized country".

Four characteristics of "civilized country";

1, "Super population scale". The population of an ordinary European country is about140,000, and the population of China is about equal to the sum of 100 ordinary European countries, which is a huge scale.

In contrast, India has the second largest population in the world, but India has never experienced such a long process of population integration as the Chinese nation. India's huge population is far from China's high cultural homogeneity, without the same language, the same values and the same way of life, which can't be compared with China, while China's cohesion is much greater.

2. "Ultra-vast territory". China's vast territory is also gradually formed in the long history. In 22 1 BC, Qin Shihuang unified China, and implemented the principle of "the same language in words, the same track in cars". In unified measurement, the county system was implemented, which laid a cultural and political foundation for maintaining the reunification of China.

After that, although China experienced many divisions, the mainstream politics of the past dynasties were seeking unity, and almost all the political systems of the past dynasties can be traced back to the Qin and Han Dynasties. China's tradition of "great unification" has come down in one continuous line since the reunification of Qin. China is vast and unified, and has gained unparalleled geographical advantages and strategic depth.

China has a strong central government and a strong national defense capability, which has completely solved the "beating" problem that has plagued the Chinese nation for more than 100 years. China can carry out strategic layout within the super-large-scale territory, realize the "West-to-East Gas Transmission" and realize the modernization project of high-speed rail "eight verticals and eight horizontals" which are rare in human history.

3. "Long historical tradition". China has a continuous history of 5,000 years, and has formed its own knowledge system and practice tradition in almost all fields of human knowledge.

In politics, philosophy, religion, language, education, art, music, drama, literature, architecture, military, sports, medicine, diet and so on. , all have their own profound and self-contained things, which are traditional, endogenous, original and continuous, which is a bit incomparable to other nationalities or other cultures.

4. "Ultra-deep cultural accumulation". Thousands of years of continuous history has also provided China with the most extensive and profound cultural resources in the world. The Chinese nation has created brilliant, rich and sustained cultural achievements in the process of 5,000 years of continuous civilization and history.

These achievements include the "harmony between man and nature" and holism advocated by China people, the complementarity of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and the coexistence of Confucianism, France and Mohism. This is still instructive to today's world full of religious conflicts and confrontations. The richness of China's culture also means that China is culturally inclusive and can accommodate diversity.

There are tens of thousands of dialects in China alone. Beijingers, Cantonese and Shanghainese, like the British, French and Germans, actually have differences in many living habits and ways of thinking, and there are also differences among 56 ethnic groups. However, these differences complement each other within the framework of "harmony but difference" in Chinese civilization.

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Nation-state:

The nation-state refers to an independent political entity, which is the modern concept and practice of national self-determination and autonomy led by Europe in the 20th century. Unlike the traditional European empires or kingdoms in the18th century, the members of the nation-state are loyal to their "compatriots" with the same status and the system formed by them. The source of identity can be traditional history, culture, language or newly created political system.

Therefore, it is a possible combination form of nation-state to form a government by one nation or several ethnic groups enjoying the same government.

The nation-state is a form of government; Nation is the identity concept of * *, and its source can be the system, culture or ethnic group enjoyed by * *. Therefore, the concept of nation-state includes different thinking such as citizen nationalism and racial nationalism, which mainly depends on the forming elements of the concept of identity.

The so-called single-nation country, all citizens enjoy a value, history, culture, or language; Whether inheriting the rule of the former empire/kingdom or the immigration reality of contemporary globalization, few countries conform to this pattern. Therefore, the contemporary nation-state is often a multi-ethnic country, and multiculturalism is often used to shape and strive for institutional recognition.