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Originally Posted by I-Bleed-Russian
State Nationalism.
I'm proud to be what I am ethnically, but I understand the troubles in today's world one may have of keeping that in tact in an entire nation and history teaches us to use the best individuals available regardless of their ethnicity.
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Nation is actually an ethnic concept. The problem with State Patriotism (that's a more correct name than State
Nationalism; sorry, I didn't make this poll) is that it can destroy the very fabric of the nation.
That's what's happened with England/Britain, and it is what's happening with Russia. I'm sure that you don't want to see Russia overpopulated with
"Russian" Tatars and others.
However I may agree in that one must search for the best equilibrium between nation and state, the nation must always be the absolute priority.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.