AW: Re: Nationalism or Patriotism what do you choose?
Nation is a group of people bonded by blood and a common history (usually common suffering).
A country is an administrative entity that ideally consists of one nation but in 99% of all cases consists of a bunch of rootless people from all over the world, of dozens of races with nothing in common but a rubber stamp in their papers. One could consider WalMart and McDonald's a country, because their employees all from all over the world, have nothing to little in common and work for a supranational entity that has a bigger gross domestic product than most countries in the world.
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For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever.
1. Peter 1:24-25
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
- Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837)
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