AN INVENTED PEOPLE

We Americans are quite obviously an invented people, created in 1776. We were made out of Anglo Saxons, Scots-Irish, Germans, Irish, Italians, French, Indians, Black people, Latinos, Jews, Asians, whatever. 

We don't have the dates, but I believe that the Celts were invented much earlier, along with the Huns and the Franks. The Chinese have been re-invented many times. The Israelis, of course, were invented in the last century, and the Palestinians are definitely an invented people. In fact, all of the nations, ethnicities, languages, and so on are cultural inventions. I mention this because I run into thinkers who make a point of telling folks that the Palestinians are "an invented people," as if that made them different. Actually, it makes them like Americans (or Israelis).