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Originally Posted by Plethon
If France became de-Jacobinized tomorrow, would you then be a patriot?
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This would be a first step, but the problem is wider : it's the entire ideology of the current French State which is to redefine.
I say this because in France, we have a sort of "Republican Patriotism" which is the glorification of the French nation, not as the representation of an identity or a people, but as an institution and a concept : the Republic and its values, like Univeralism and Egalitarism.
It's the basis of the
modern patriotism celebrating a multiethnic "Black-Blanc-Beur"
(Black-White-Arab) France, such as during the World Cup of 1998. And of course, I completely disagree with such a definition of patriotism.