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Originally Posted by M.R.
It's also hard to say which nation is 'small'. They say Slovenians are a small nation, but I wouldn't really agree here, I mean if we compare European nations with Chinese, almost every nation here can be considered 'small', but does this really matter? Greeks are a small nation and yet they made a civiliazation we all admire and stood against much bigger Persian empire.
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I agree here completely. In fact, I used the word
small in the conventional sense as it is used today in media and public discourse. Maybe I should have put it under quotation marks to make my point more clearly. Every European nation is tiny compared to China, obviously.