Civilization state versus nation-state

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Civilization state versus nation state
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I think that it'll be better to add backgrounds on 2011 January 15 when the article was updated, the speaker who seems to live in Europe doesn't tell us, though. It'd be important because, certainly, the end of 2010, it's confirmed that China eclipsed Japan in GDP.
And then, on March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred and the internet in our hands started telling the world how Asia countries are, people didn't have smartphones before, though.

Thus, l think that China and Japan are competitively known by many people in the world.

China covers a large area and has a big population that is over one billion. The most important difference that the speaker tell us and we couldn't understand is that China is a civilization-state. Why we couldn't understand is that we think about it through our thought that is a nation-state, and no other tradition or history or culture can compare.

The nation-state is a state inhabited by a homogeneous group of people who consider themselves to be a distinct nationality. It's like the countries of Europe and The United State in which national identities are overwhelmingly a product of the era of the nation-state.

In China, the sense of identity has primarily been shaped by the country's history. This is the Civilization-state. The characteristics are that China is the exceptional longevity country and the sheer scale diversity geographically and demographically.

Simply, China has been enormous scale about all things, though, it's not a democratic country.
The point is that over thousands of years, many processes, culture, racial, and ethnic have been weakened by many races that comprised the ancient Chinese called the Han. It's weakened no longer significant. There are no other countries like that. This is China where we have to think that it's a completely new world that is presently unfolding before us.

P.S. In the story, the word “enjoy” really made me troubled. It's appeared many times. I think that this must be one of the unable understand part for us. Quote: the Chinese state enjoys greater legitimacy than any Western state.

Words in this story
homogeneous /adj/  of the same composition, like, similar, consistent, uniform
distinct /adj/ clear, well-defined, unmistakable, easily
Civilization /noun/ the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced.
Nation /noun/ a large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.
geographic /adj/ relating to the structure of ground and areas.
demographic /adj/ relating to the structure of populations.