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I often notice that we have certain ideas of nations because we've always seen them in the same way on a map. Consider a U.S. that only connects to the Pacific via Washington and Oregon. How freak would that be? Anyways, sometimes looking at a map, one can make all kinds of generalizations.

Like say Newfoundland. It's just an island with a small population, right? So it has to be part of Canada, right? Just gravitates towards it. No sense leaving it out. But it wasn't part of the mainland until 1949. And in retrospect, New Zealand is tiny compared to Australia, but ANZAC isn't a single country.

So why is that? And could Newfoundland have remained independent?
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