One motive was racial: the young countries wanted "British stock".
Still, it is striking how many Italians continue to speak dialect 150 years after the creation of their state.Italy breaks the rule that young countries are uniformly patriotic.
Instead, if past is prelude, today's young countries like China will be the countries that in the not-distant future go shopping for younger workers in younger places.
Fresh drinking water is therefore another urgent need.India and Pakistan are young countries, and many of the dead were children, who made up perhaps half the population of the worst-affected areas.
The young countries of the New World the United States and later the republics of Latin America commemorated with statues heroes whom they perceived as national saviours and founders.
At a pre-concert talk, the musicologist Árni Heimir Ingólfsson said, "Iceland won its independence from Denmark only in 1944, and, like so many young countries, it has legitimized itself through culture".
