When did Jordan become a country?

Many of the Jordanians I know would probably start kicking you in the head before even thinking about the answer or even the question itself. They will start thinking, this $$%%^#@ is trying to belittle our country? We always think of this as an insult!!

But really what makes a country? better yet what is the defenition of a country?

It is not meant to make Jordan any less of a nation or a culture when you say that Jordan as a country didn't exist 100 hundred years ago. There is a big difference between an inhibited land and a country.



"A country" adds the dimension of political identity, of a nation that moves with its self appointed leadership towards it's own agenda. Before the so called "independance" of Arab countries, we were part of a larger nation and a larger political cluster.

It was not ONLY Jordan... Almost every other Arab country did not exist as an individual political structure as it does today. And we were sold the concept of "A COUNTRY" as if it is the greatest achievement of our modern times.

Our greatest disappointment was sold as our greatest achievement!! The unity of the Arab nations was broken down with lines of ink held sacred on fresh glossy maps with 21 proud new flags!!

What the European nations are trying to accomplish through cancelling borders and unifiying their political stance is exactly the opposite of our "greatest achievement". The American states accomplished unity and became the "United" states after civil wars.

Oh but we would wage wars to destroy our own unity and would even think of the term "Jordan didn't even exist 100 Hundred years ago" as an insult.

This comes 3 days late, from blogging about Jordan day. But Jordan to me is not a mere country... It is HOME as a home it is older than a country.

As a home it means alot more to me than any fake slogan.