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There's only one way to do nationalism properly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBT4ZWy6Lm4 To answer seriously, I live in Scotland where there's quite a lot of open "pro-Scottishness" and the governing party is the SNP (Scottish National Party). I'm pretty sure this is only the case because of the existence of the UK, Scotland being ruled by London, and all the other consequences of having to overcome a massive cultural cringe. Or maybe it's because bagpipes, whisky and haggis is all legitimately awesome and why the gently caress wouldn't you be proud of that.
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Effectronica posted:American nationalism hasn't led to any horrors we've been forced to confront as of yet, so it's not really surprising how widespread it is. There's also the point of view that focusing on America as made up of trivial things demolishes our understanding of it as a collection of ideals or of people, but that's somewhat paranoid for my tastes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
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ekuNNN posted:The only acceptable nationalism is separatist movements I'd tend to agree, and posit that decentralisation is a positive movement resulting from localised self-interest- Scottish, Catalan, Basque independence movements, etc; with the caveat that sometimes it really just is a bunch of assholes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lega_Nord
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All the Polish expats I know are cool and chill dudes and Tyskie is a fun beer because it comes in huge bottles and doesn't cost much. All the Americans I know just seem embarrassed to be Americans.
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Jan 17, 2015 16:19
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davidb posted:We should all walk around embarrassed because our homo sapien/erectus ancestors killed off an ENTIRE SPECIES of humans called neanderthalls. Neanderthalls were at the same technological level as us (basic stone tools) until roughly 75k years ago? You might be able to make this argument if Americans didn't go around whooping about how good they were at killing Native Americans and openly mocking them at Halloween. EDIT: Nevermind, I got trolled.
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