One of the key questions for this theme, overall, asks: what is the region with which people identify and within which their culture finds expression? Another way of asking this question is this: to what extent to the borders of nation-states correspond with the territories with which different cultural and/or ethnic groups identify? Before exploring any of these Web sites, ask yourself the following questions:
Next, look at these web sites:
Both of these sites call for the recognition of "nations" around the world. While the current world map is carved into nation-states, or countries, most nation-states are made up of multiple culture and language groups, called nations. Often nations cross borders and exist within multiple countries. Recognition of this different way of looking at the world is also linked to the concept of regions.
For now, explore the following questions.
Finally, return to the last question asked in the introduction: "Who's left out in the carving
up of the world into countries?" In order to better understand some of the possible answers read
the following booklet made by the United Nations Refugee Agency about
stateless people, or individuals with no nationality (citizenship).