Monday, March 17th, 2008
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Southern Charm,
Western Passion
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 16,186
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Re: Question about Welsh nationalism
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Originally Posted by stribbor
I wouldn't agree with you.
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I didn't think that you would.
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Nationalism is founded as liberal concept, as liberal answer to absolute monarchies and ancien regime.
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That is 19th century romantic nationalism. A flawed understading of nationalism.
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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.
–Plato–
'Many people, I believe, wish for a society where faith, decency, pro-life convictions and national self-determination within Europe can flourish; and not be swallowed up in a dictatorial EU bureaucracy.'
–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–
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