States have always been around, Cultural Nations have always been around, but the concept of a Nation State hasn't. Sometimes you have a country like France where most people are of the same Nation. It's often easier to rule over a people who are alike and also when people are able to freely move about and interact with each other there languages mingle and the form a common language and culture. For example the Language divides in China are largely the result of geography. Southern China Proper is more mountainous and has many languages while Norther China Proper has flatter terrain and most everyone speaks Mandarin. Then you might have something like the Holy Roman Empire that ruled over many different Cultural Nations such as Germans, Dutch, Flemish, Italians, Czechs etc. Then you have the exact opposite is where a Nation is split up among various states such as Germany being split into dozens of small states, kingdoms, principalities, France ruled over some of the German nation in Alsace-Lorraine. Poland for over a century had no State and the Polish Nation found itself ruled by Prussia, Austria, and Russia. Nationalism as we know it today, where ones nation became intimately tied to politics didn't really come about until the French Revolution. The concept of the Nation State and the desire for them was an outgrowth of Nationalism. This is what justified the creation of Germany and Italy. The Prussians annexing Alsace Lorraine, the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the creation of Poland and the Baltic States.



Really this isn't a very good piece because Dwayne Johnson is defending the nation and not necessarily the nation states.