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We Must Be a Nation, Right?
"They're wildly popular with England and America, but especially England because England's all that matters then. And one of the problems, for example, the Poles had in the 19th century is they never... They had, I believe, three of these attempts at a romantic revolution," he says. "And as it turned out, what really made a nation at that time was a language plus a coastline."