National patriotism is a religion that worships dirt.
That quote is from Doug Stanhope not accusing anybody of stealing comedy or anything, its a pretty basic view of nationalism, but its just a good way of phrasing. So credit where its due
Thank you, I edited both the title and the description.
I like to relight nation towards root. That way it’s not about upholding the heart of walldoms.
I would love to understand what youre saying
To relight is to stop using one word and start using another word.
It plays on the idea that we can be enlightened about something like nationalism, but that we reckognize that this enlightenment is miscoloring our world, and so we ought to remove this word from our language. However, oftentimes it is not possible to simply remove a word, because it is a word that is used to refer to real world phenomenas, and so we have to find another word that can replace the miscoloring word.
In this deem, we have unlighted nation and enlightened root, thus relighting away from nation towards root. Think of it like a spotlight that is moved from one word to the other.
Okay…thats helpful. Now do “root” and “upholding the heart of walldoms”. If you don’t mind
When somebody claims authority over an geographic area; The authorities and that which it subjugates is the walldom. The heart of the walldom is where the authorities lies.
Roots are our sense of origin. The roots are unlike nations not connected to walldoms. One may regard their roots as from where their parents are from. So one could say that a person has roots in Norway and Germany for instance.
When you begin to study the tradition of your country, you often discover that many words, fairy tales, and dishes that you consider traditions of your own country are actually from very faraway places.
For example: the zero and chess from India; algebra and algorithms from Arabic countries; paper, silk, gunpowder, and ceramics from China; tomatoes and potatoes from America; etc.
That’s why you should travel and learn other languages when you are young. You’ll learn a different perspective, culture, way of life and even if you don’t make it your own, it’ll be harder to see one superior to the other.
Some way people need to realize we are all human and need to work together for the world but greed of the few, aided by politics & religion used to control the many, keeps getting in the way.
Outside the more pragmatic and conceivable city-state, the very concept of nationality in the modern sense is pretty useless.
It is useless for the worker, but it is very useful for the owner. The owner will use foreigners as scapegoats for the low salaries of the workers.
so many americans and europeans on this site are literally this and they’re probably gonna upvote this anyway
Pretty sure Lemmy is very anti-nationalist on average
Depends. Nationalism is progressive in liberating colonized countries from oppression, such as in Palestine. I don’t support nationalism in the abstract, but sometimes in the particular if it plays a progressive role. I still support communist movements more, but nationalists can be allied with against colonialism, neocolonialism, and imperialism.
my point is that they think they’re anti-nationalist but they still default to nationalist thinking. when discussing the global south, so many people here still insist that the west is somehow free and democratic while scary and different global south is oppressive and autocratic.
At first I read “British invaders”
teaches you to take pride in shit you’ve never done
The better outcome.
I’m more disgusted by the fuckers who go out and do the war crimes, then come home and demand everyone else say “Thank You For Your Service”.
Some cases are very ironic, like the one of American veterans who fought in Vietnam coming back there to retire
https://phong-partners.com/en/american-veterans-choose-vietnam-for-retirement
wow, the original
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