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Originally Posted by lunulae
national identities can never be true or genuine, since they were created as a consequence of the national romanticism in the 19th century.
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Sorry, regarding the French identity, it starts in the early middle ages. Have you ever heard of
Carolus Magnus and Clovis?
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Originally Posted by lunulae
j.g. herder and amateur ethnologists like the brothers grimm were the forerunners for this new "religion" that eventually led to a political ideology.
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There is a strong smell of white nationalism in this...
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Originally Posted by lunulae
i'm thus not indicating that a nation's folklore, traditions etcetera can't be genuine, i'm just saying that the concept 'national identity' is constructed.
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"White nationalism" is much more a real XXth century folklore. I don't see anything as much "constructed" as that.