In the 19th century, just after the American Revolution (1775-1783) and the French Revolution (1789-99), the concept of a nation began to emerge. A Frenchman and an American no longer served a king but the French or American “nation” (patrie). A nation is an entity which has a common language, culture, memory of historic events, and “national consciousness.” It does not mean that the nation must share a common territory. This condition is applied toward a state rather than toward a nation. In this model, a state is a category of a power infrastructure. However, the state creates the nation. It means that emigrants from the nation-state may claim the origin of their nationality from the nation-state, which may be thousands of miles away.