A Nation of Languages
A nation that wishes to remain strong must have a common language. The people must be able to speak to each other and understand each other. To know what they are saying. This is why something as simple as an accent can divide people. Separate a people into the haves and have nots. On the Island of Great Britain, French-speaking nobility ruled over Germanic peasants for generations, until they spent 100 years fighting the French and learned to speak one language. What we now call English. They became a nation when they did that. A nation that would spread out and conquer the world in time. A strong nation must have a common language. Sometimes it is born with it. Sometimes it creates a new one. But without one, a nation is divided, and a nation divided against itself will never stand in the long run.
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