Shad
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Localism means decentralising much governance to the local/municipal level with only limited amounts at the national. A bit like Switzerland.
You mean the Canton system?
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Localism means decentralising much governance to the local/municipal level with only limited amounts at the national. A bit like Switzerland.
But the behaviour resulting from nationalism is the same as from tribalism (only on a bigger scale). And tribalism is old.
You mean the Canton system?
What would soft-nationalism be, if it did exist?It is natural reaction to globalism, crony capitalism, political sellouts, foreign aid, etc. The secondary relation is what matters as most nations practice soft-nationalism.
It is definitely something that we need to do and keep doing.Maybe time we start to see each other as human beings and not different races and nationalities?
Its preference to fiction over reality and facts.What's extreme about it?
What would soft-nationalism be, if it did exist?
That is just a dangerous fiction that deserves nothing but destruction at sight.Every nation places itself and it's citizens first, and maintains it's sovereignty. That is soft-nationalism or civic nationalism if people are treated equal under the law.. Remove the idea from your mind that nationalism is only of the Nazi type.
That is just a dangerous fiction that deserves nothing but destruction at sight.
Sovereignity is nothing but fiction shaped into an attempt at sustaining egocentric discourse.Wrong. Look up civic nationalism and try again. More so look at the world. Do you taxes go to your nation or another nation as the majority of spending? Does your nation maintain it's sovereignty or does it let anyone carve up it's territory at will? You think reality is a fiction. Hilarious.
Nationalism - Wikipedia
Sovereignity is nothing but fiction shaped into an attempt at sustaining egocentric discourse.
It is pure venon.
Okay there.... This is based on what exactly? Other than you throwing words at it. Every nation on the planet practices it.
Hardly. You are just stuck in an ideological mindtrap. Try carving out an area in your nation and see what the government does.
Most nations invoke the word. That does not make it meaningful, and does not make its use sane.
What do you think spurred me into that conclusion in the first place?
We will have to agree to disagree, apparently.I am not using a nation or it's leaders as the source of a definition.
An ideology that is divorced from reality
We will have to agree to disagree, apparently.
Nationalism is not something that I do, encourage or respect.
Sovereignity is not a concept that I find either useful or respectable, either.
I said my piece already. Don't waste our time.You need to look up civic nationalism.
Yet this is how the world is and will be for a long time
There are extremists but I've noticed that nationalism itself is now being treated as some horrible thing across the board. News channels are spreading misinformation about it. We wouldn't even have countries without nationalism. Most of it is not extremist at all. The only harmful types of it are ultranationalism that has transformed into chauvinism or things like racial nationalism that seeks to remove the rights of people. But the form of nationalism that is just about putting the needs of your country first and maintaining traditions and sovereignty are quite healthy in my book. I would call myself that sort of nationalist. Tribalism gets an overblown bad rap, too.What's extreme about it?
I said my piece already. Don't waste our time.
There are extremists but I've noticed that nationalism itself is now being treated as some horrible thing across the board. News channels are spreading misinformation about it. We wouldn't even have countries without nationalism. Most of it is not extremist at all. The only harmful types of it are ultranationalism that has transformed into chauvinism or things like racial nationalism that seeks to remove the rights of people. But the form of nationalism that is just about putting the needs of your country first and maintaining traditions and sovereignty are quite healthy in my book. I would call myself that sort of nationalist. Tribalism gets an overblown bad rap, too.