Re: [tied] Scientific Nationalism?

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 8935
Date: 2001-09-01

Che:
>I can see your sense of Canadianity is comparable to my patriotic
>romanticism, as you seem to be very upset about confusing (???)
>Canadians with USans.

If someone were to confuse Spain with Portugal, there would also be
need of correction, not out of nationalistic pride, but for logic's
sake. Canada is a replaceable, abstract object to me. If it were
to distingrate one day, I'd just pack up my bags and move without
shedding a tear.

Regardless, note that I didn't assume to know someone else's
position on various topics because this is simply not conducive to
rational discussion.

Che:
>My sentece "Are you an American or something?" means Canadian, USan,
>Mexican, Argentinian, Chilen, Peruvian... so don't get too angry about
>that.

I'm not angry, but you've incorrectly used the term "American"
which refers specifically to the US in both English *and* French.

The rest of your post was more irrelevance to the discussion at
hand, if not to IE linguistics. However, I will say that nationalism
may be becoming an outdated concept as globalisation makes its
mark on the world.

Perhaps this is my true sense of identity
- I'm of the Earth, I'm human.

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