Re: Nationalism or Patriotism what do you choose?
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Originally Posted by Aeternitas
Well then I can define the Earth as being flat to you, that doesn't mean it really has to be so.
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This is a non-sequiter. Im not a scientist, but last time I checked the Earth has had one shape and plus they're not multiple earths(that we know of).
Nations however have taken different forms throughout history and each nation stresses different elements over others. They're are multiple forms of nationalism(political, religious/secular, cultural, etc.). They are also different paradigms from which to approach nationalism and its formation(Primodialism, Perennialism, Modernism, Entho-Symbolism, etc.). There is much complexity to the issue, and nationalism' relationship to patriotism is just one aspect of it.
Understand? I sincerly hope we can avoid trying to mock each other. 
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"Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics."
--Charles Peguy
"Love for a man's own nation must not make a man into a wild animal, which tears down and provokes revenge; it must make him more noble, so that he can gain the respect and love of other nations for his nation. Therefore love toward your own nation is not contradictory to love for the whole of mankind; they complement each other. All of the nations are children of God."
--Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac, 1938
Last edited by Perun; Sunday, January 30th, 2005 at 21:29.
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