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Originally Posted by Akria
Nationalism is repugnant. Patriotism is merely a more socially acceptable guise of nationalism in which discrimination is in favour of something rather than against other things.
Everyone should stop with the closed-mindedness and embrace humanity rather than a single nation or group of nations.
The British Empire was one of the better empires, but an empire nonetheless.
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So this means that when the Norwegians celebrate their freedom from Denmark on Constitution Day and do so with national costume and various cultural parades, they are just being "repugnant"? They should have allowed Denmark to keep its dominion over them? Iceland should similarly not celebrate its own freedom from the Danish yolk? When it does so it's just being "repugnant? Tibet is "repugnant"? It should join with China and celebrate its oneness? America is "repugnant? The Americans are a nation and celebrate their freedom from Britain. Is this just disgusting? Should they rather have pushed for a single world identity instead?