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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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I'm no hard line nationalist or patriotist but it those two qualities that make a country free it's those two qualities that mean the people of a country have decided what to be rather than being socially engineered or indoctrinated into fitting into a category that the ruling or political classes have decided the people of a country should be.
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Everyone should stop with the closed-mindedness and embrace humanity rather than a single nation or group of nations.
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You just don't get it. To embrace humanity is to exsept people for what they are not to try and mold them into somthing we'd like them all to be and then send them as the communists did into labour camps if they don't comply.
Patriotism is part of the natural instinctive animal inside us. We're patriotic about our friends. We're patriotic about the music we like. We're patriotic about even stupid things like 22 men kicking a dead cow between two posts and seeing if it can get past the man trying to stop it. And on a larger scale we're patriotic about our country.
It's natural and ten thousand years of evolution, social airs and graces an early form of social engineering and modern social engineering such as political correctness will not take that away from any one of any religion country or race.
I'll give you two examples to think about. Girls tend to go for controlling men that push other men around. Why? Because no matter how we're told to behave or what women do or don't like. No matter how much she talks of her dream man that's caring and considerate a womans natural instinct is to go for a dominant male.
With regard to race look at the situation with the fall of Russian communism with the break off soviet states. Wile the Iron curtain was there to control every one different races got on when it fail different races started to attack each other. Again that is the natural instinct for survival. That is no racist comment that is the scary truth. I was talking to a mate of mine thats black about this subject who completely agreed and further to this pointed out that some black people are just as racist as white. The same rule aplies to all races.
That in no way shape or form means we can't get on fine it just means we should be aware of this and not pretend or be scared to say that the danger is their the greatest danger is for people to shy away from the issue or pretend it is not their or it could never happen to us.