[masswerk]

Ok, so I happen to be Austrian. A 105 years ago, Austria was a big, multiethnic empire. Still, being Austrian was a nationality, embracing what are now several countries and nations. (This is the nationality my grandparents were born into.) Back in the day, I probably would have identified as a German-Austrian. However, there are at least 3 major countries with a major population of mostly German ancestry. 32 years ago, there had been 4. But I do not identify as German. ("German" ethnicity is a construct, as well. In this particular case, according to a once famous Austrian saying, it's a mix of those left behind during the great migration.) Instead, I do identify as part of a community inhabiting a certain political territory. This territory has lost considerable parts, entire countries and nations, but it also has received regions and ethnicities from what had been the Hungarian part of the Habsburg empire. It even isn't the same political entity it had been not that long ago. Over the last century, it had been an empire, a small republic, part of the third Reich, and then a newly reconstructed republic. It had been located at the very outskirts of the Western hemisphere and is now right in the middle of a greater Europe. Still, there is identity, but this identity is undeniably fluid. – It's hard to not to observe some fluidity in the concept of nationality.