Who's the coolest member of your nation?

[Hurrem sultana]

Why do I have this feeling that the OP's intention was to list great men (or women) of your country, not fellow forum members?

same here

[Accountant]

Why do I have this feeling that the OP's intention was to list great men (or women) of your country, not fellow forum members?

Yeah right. Just post your picture already!

[Methmatician]

When you say nation, do you mean ethnicity or country?

[Linet]

Nation....means nation
Country is the official place that you come from but you belong to a specific nation no matter where you have been born

[alfieb]

Al Pacino

A legendary actor whose mother and father were both Sicilian, Pacino was born in New York City, but lived in Sicily as he was growing up. In fact, he admits to having worked as a prostitute in Sicily when he couldn't find work. Shortly thereafter, he was asked to portray a young Sicilian-American New Yorker in a movie you may have heard of - The Godfather. It wasn't too hard for him, as his family actually did come from the town of Corleone as his fictional family did in the film. A bit harder was the role of Tony Montana in Scarface, where he was tasked with the portrayal of a Cuban immigrant in Miami, or The Devil's Advocate where he played Satan himself. He won an Academy Award for his role in Scent of a Woman, making up for being rejected several times before.

[Hochmeister]

Nation....means nation
Country is the official place that you come from but you belong to a specific nation no matter where you have been born

For instance, Greeks in America are members of the American nation, but ethnically they are still Greek people.

Burgundians and Normandians are different ethnicities, but they are still members of the French nation etc.

[heygum]

Anyways the question wasn't specific enough. Who's the coolest member of my nation on this forum? Or in general?

Optional.

When you say nation, do you mean ethnicity or country?

Optional.

A nation may refer to a community of people who share a common language, culture, ethnicity, descent, or history.[1] In this definition, a nation has no physical borders. However, it can also refer to people who share a common territory and government (for example the inhabitants of a sovereign state) irrespective of their ethnic make-up.

[Linet]

For instance, Greeks in America are members of the American nation, but ethnically they are still Greek people.

Burgundians and Normandians are different ethnicities, but they are still members of the French nation etc.

No , they are members of the country...citizens of America ...but they arent Americans in nationality...nation=blood
Americans arent a nation anyway, thats why they have the need to say ethnicities....because the nation is false term for them and doesnt really describe them, so they need to find the real nationality of the people by using the term ethnicity.
No European country need that term...we have nations, if you are Greek, you are Greek , if you are Italian then you are Italian . Who isnt Greek but lets say Albanian with Greek passport, then he doesnt belong to an ethnicity but to the Albanian nation....

Dont confuse passports with nations....

[Hochmeister]

Americans arent a nation anyway, thats why they have the need to say ethnicities....because the nation is false term for them and doesnt really describe them, so they need to find the real nationality of the people by using the term ethnicity.

There are different political science's schools with diverse definitions of the "nation" term, with both your and my views among them.

As for "my" definition, it comes from the days of the French revolution in 1793. The French managed to unite absolutely different peoples like Catalonians, Normandians, Gauls, Franks etc., without religion and without a King (the owner of land). Further this idea was adopted in the USA and Soviet Union, because that is a very useful tool to organize a melting pot (well, I'm a product of this melting pot too).

That's very useful for Empires (same in Byzantine, where everybody was a "Roman", aside from even a Viking ancestry). But, no doubt, that is very harmful for such mono-ethnic countries like Ellada (on the other hand, the different Hellenic tribes makes up Ellada, i.e. the Greek nation, same with modern Italy etc.).

[Mans not hot]

XX is not Mordid!

Finally someone got it right. Thank you, brother slav.