▲ 15 ▼ What makes a country real/not real? (lemmy.world) submitted 1 year ago by Justathroughdaway@lemmy.world to c/explainlikeimfive@lemmy.world 25 comments fedilink hide all child comments I see a lot of people saying that countries like Israel, Latvia, Belgium and Dubai are not real countries, but how are they not? They seem to meet the threshold. How are they any less real then any other country?
[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) You could just post the link. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Justathroughdaway@lemmy.world [S] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) Giant mix up here. When I read "Emirate" I thought that was a Arabic word for state. My bad. A lot of Arabic discourse I seen relates to the legitimacy of certain Arab countries. Kind of like the Balkans. There's a belief that Qatar, Kuwait and even Palestine aren't real countries. https://share.google/zU2WrcLx0AbnRrkH6 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Justathroughdaway@lemmy.world [S] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) Giant mix up here. When I read "Emirate" I thought that was a Arabic word for state. My bad. A lot of Arabic discourse I seen relates to the legitimacy of certain Arab countries. Kind of like the Balkans. There's a belief that Qatar, Kuwait and even Palestine aren't real countries. https://share.google/zU2WrcLx0AbnRrkH6 permalink fedilink source parent