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Natalia09 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

No State Is An Island

Dear all,

Would anybody help me to understand the meaning of this phrase. Should it be understood literally or has it some hidden meaning.

Thank you.
  

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org/wiki/No_Man_Is_an_Island No state (whether this means "state" as in the USA or "nation" in the broader sense, I don't know) can stand by itself but is part of the entire nation/world. )

— BarbaraPA

  • org/wiki/No_Man_Is_an_Island No state (whether this means "state" as in the USA or "nation" in the broader sense, I don't know) can stand by itself but is part of the entire nation/world.
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It's a metaphor, based on this famous poem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Man_Is_an_Island

No state (whether this means "state" as in the USA or "nation" in the broader sense, I don't know) can stand by itself but is part of the entire nation/world.

(As a literaly statement, it's untru
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