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Human beings find their dignity and honor in their identities. In the modern world, for various reasons, the most powerful form of identity has become national or ethnic identity. It is this that makes nationalism a more powerful force in shaping feelings and determining the structures of our world than even the great ideologies and religions. This fact is often obscured because we conduct political debate in terms of philosophies, whether they concentrate on economic arrangements or on constitutional structures: The confrontations are posed in terms of capitalism and socialism, democracy and totalitarianism, liberalism and Marxism. These are not, of course, unimportant issues, but they operate mostly within the matrix of the nationstate. The common assumption is that each state should have its nation and each nation its state.