Talk:Indians (Age of Empires II)/@comment-31256631-20170216152741/@comment-27726014-20181205065450

That is true. Nationalism is a European idea and so didn't exist in many places until it was introduced by Europe. That doesn't automatically mean that the national identity nations influenced by that took was also European. They took what they had already and just saw it in a new way. For some nations this was easier than other.

Japan which already had a very unified culture could adapt to it very easily. China who's culture was more diverse had it a lot harder.

China and India are more comparable to Europe as a whole than any single European state. Europe was unified by it's Christianity but still had many ethnic and cultural differences.