reasons why countries strive hard to attain the status of a nation state
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I’m not sure OP is quite clear on the concept, based on the phrasing of this question.
In colloquial English, the words “country” and “nation” are synonymous if they are used to refer to what international law calls a “nation-state.” This is the way most people usually use both words.
However, both words also have other meanings, which do NOT completely overlap the concept of a “nation-state” under international law.
A “country” (again, in colloquial English, since this is not a legal term of art at all) can refer to a nation-state, OR it can refer to a mere region of land, which has some shared feature that the speaker considers significant. One could, for instance, speak of “wine country,” or “horse country,” or “mountain country,” or “delta country,” or other such terms loosely describing either the physical or cultural attributes of that region.
And, a “nation” (in both colloquial English AND in social-science jargon) can refer to a nation-state, OR it can refer to an ETHNIC nation, that is, a group of people closely bound together by some combination of shared (real or presumed) descent from a common ancestor or tribe, culture, language, customs, religion, and above all, a shared sense of being a “nation.”
So. Now that we have defined our terms, let’s examine the question again.
A “nation” OR a “country” (in the nation-state sense) DOES NOT “strive” to become a nation-state. It ALREADY IS one. France is already a nation, for instance. So is Germany. There is no “striving” involved. They are what they are.
A “country” (in the geographic-region sense) also does not “strive” to become a nation-state, at least not directly. “Appalachian country” in the USA is not a separate nation-state from the rest of the USA and does not “strive” to be one.
But — and perhaps this is what OP is really asking about — some ETHNIC “nations” (cohesive groups of people who think of themselves as sharing a collective national identity) DO strive to become nation-states, if they DO NOT already have that status.
Basically, that means those ethnic nations strive to become INDEPENDENT of the present ruling group over the region of land where their numbers are concentrated, in order to gain self-determination rather than being ruled by outsiders. Of course, when the borders of any nation-state are drawn — that is one of the legal requirements for being a nation-state, having a defined territory under their exclusive control — it never exactly matches up with the range of the members of that ethnic nation. Some members of that ethnic nation who live outside of those borders will have the option to continue to live as a minority ethnicity under whatever ruling group governs the land where they actually live, outside of the new nation-state’s borders; OR, if the new nation-state allows, they could immigrate to the new nation-state, by leaving their former home and moving there.
Why would they do that? To become part of the self-governing main body of the ethnic nation they identify with. A Frenchman can live outside of France, for instance, but France is where his ethnic nationality is “at home.”
And the reason why ethnic nations strive to gain the status of nation-states may be expressed differently by each one, but at bottom it comes down to the desire to live independently, as a nation, according to their nation’s own culture, language, religion, and customs. And so they can hold their heads up high as equals among the sovereigns of the world, instead of only being a minority in someone else’s “country.”